Novelity stretches perceived time. As you grow older and most everything of your day become routine, novelity runs low and therefore time flies. This has been my theory for a few years now.

I wonder if it's in the casinos best interest to demonstrate that if you, in fact, "manage to beat the odds" the odd (guys in suits) will beat you.

[spoiler] I can't be unique in being annoyed by "drama" involving characters I barely know. Unfortunately SC Universe insisted that someone had to play the tragic hero and die in the first 50 minutes. The next 10 minutes were, surprise, filled with a hysteric woman, related to the dead "hero", crying, screaming, yelling and waxing nostalgically. I fucking hate that. Why do writers think they need these cliches and emotional breakdowns to give their story meat? Is this really what they think the audience had in mind when they turned on science fiction? [/spoiler]

I thought they get their salary for their hours and hours of work!?

not most. 50% if the police have a very very good day.

of course Hitler was a socialist ... he prefered to call it the "volkswohl" though. Don't let yourself be blinded by the Nazis own propaganda, please.

Why would you need grow lights on the moon?

You have to realize that people have been saying the exact same things since launch day basically. Sure, someday WoW will cease but you can be sure it's not going to be anytime soon.

"How it works" ... that's lunacy ... I know full well HOW it works it's just that doing manual memory allocation is beneath me. Sort of like how I know how to clean the office yet it's not the best use of my time. C guys always acting like malloc() is rocket science when in actuality it's the sort of mindless book keeping that any programmer worth a damn (and any human being with a shred of self worth, actually) will avoid like the plague.

Anyone saying "it's just a hobby" either doesn't understand what a hobby is or what "just" means. If people actually have a hobby it's going to be very very important to them. Anyhow, I wonder how many people would accept / defend a Microsoft app store that was there to ensure no kiddy porn or trojan could be loaded on your Windows PC.

you realize he did this in a designated PVP zone, right? So actually the problem is that he is being harassed by passive / aggressive carebears that arranged it amongst themselves to have a smooth farming experience there. The thought that farming should be a secondary activity with a lower priority than the actual goals of the game doesn't even enter the minds of these flaming turds.

actually ... no. You should read the paper.

I'm pretty sure it isn't seeing how the german-derived null literally means zero.