This will not do anything ot stop trolling or any other sort of abuse. People that do so are adept at creating bogus IDS with which to have their fun. In fact, having real names publically available, you will certainly see cases of trolls chasing real people through the game servers harassing them wherever they play. Character stats are already publically available via their Armoury portal. I'm sure the biggest benenfit to doing this has nothing to do with protecting people from flame baiting

this brings up a question that has been haunting my house for years now. those spiral slides, like they have in playgrounds. is that a ramp or a screw?

or, better still, the xtracycle!

so you prefer the propaganda from people like exon who want you to go out and buy their gasoline?

sure do. and for a long time, before the advent of industrialization, the climate has experienced only moderate fluctuations even with all that volcanic co2. then along came escalades and coal plants and massive human-engineer deforestation projects that when added to all that volcanic co2, it tipped the balance to a general warming trend.

of course the earth heats and cools on a cycle. no one is claiming otherwise. the concern currently is the amplitude of the cycle and the speed at which the general warming trend is expected to occur... not the existence of the cycle itself.

uh, yes, of course he would. people who are opposed to climate change, which so many here seem to call "global warming", are not by extension in favour of global cooling. they're in favour of a global climate that is stable within the normal and natural rates of fluctuations.

and fair value at that price.

it's only been six weeks since the u.s. election -- and already people are forgetting the importance of anonymity.

in the united states, indeed in every western democracy, ballots are secret. no one questions this anonymity -- indeed, it's mandated by law.

the reason we have secret ballots is simple: the framers of the constitution (any western constitution) realized that people could only truly vote their conscience, express their political preference, if they could do so without fear of reprisal or ridicule. anonymity is a cornerstone of a free and democratic society.

it's kind of a shame that ms. dyson doesn't realize that.

and the tax on cd-rs is such a wild success.

witness my band. we suck. people hate us. no one comes to our shows. so, we release a cd. since we're not big enough to be granted an exemption, we pay the cd-r tax on all the blanks we use (and, yes, we used a legit duplication plant). of course, our cd sells miserably and we get nowhere near the beak-even point.

which means.... we lose $300 putting out our cd, and the tax we paid on the blanks goes straight into the pockets of a big-name canadian act. perhaps avril levign. that's right: levign makes more money off my artistic creation than i do.

thank you socan!

seriously. at best this sounds like a marginally novel take on cogeneration.

or the "unix koan" grep "" /dev/null

this explains why "Vista: Piracy Edition" works best.