I recently resubbed after taking a year or so off, and I'm enjoying it again. And space PvP is launching in the next couple of weeks! The PvP aspect really appeals to me, while I can't be bothered to check out endgame PvE. To each their own.

You can play for free if you'd like to check it out.

Both of your points are spot on and the are reason I refuse to give any money to Wikimedia as well as contribute to it. And Jimmy's response/attitude just reinforces that my feelings are justified. Seriously Fark that guy!

The deletionist movement in particular runs contrary to the whole idea of a crowd sourced informational website.

I rarely post here, but I just wanted to offer my support to your observations, since I have noticed them as well.

I'm currently on AT&T but don't have a smart phone nor contract. Just month to month, and while I want to stay with them since they have the best coverage in my area, it seems this is just screwing over the customers who didn't get an iPhone or unlimited plan prior, even more.

I really want an Android phone and am willing to pay for an unlocked HTC one, but I wouldn't be able to get an unlimited data plan. However I can always sign up for Verizon and get the same HTC phone, which AT&T doesn't even offer and get an unlimited data plan. Hell I can sign up right now for an iPhone with Verizon and get unlimited too. Not so much from AT&T.

This makes absolutely no sense if your goal is to retain customers. If I didn't hate Verizon so much I would have probably already signed up.

*sigh*

I've had a recent change of heart as well when it comes to Blizzard. Not as a result of this, but some of their other recent and monetary based decisions. I have been a fan from the beginning and have bought all of their games. But no longer. I've already sent them an email expressing my feelings.

It's sad that such a great company is being run my greedy wankers.

Or maybe they should have put up a payment screen on their site, "We're sorry, your antivirus subscription has expired. To prevent your computer from being exposed to malware and virii, we have taken the proactive step of disabling your computer until you have made payment. For the low renewal fee plus a small reactivation fee of $199, we will be happy to walk you through the re-enablement process. Have a nice secure day!"

Its a new security paradigm. The newly locked down computer will not run anything, and therefore no virii, malware, bots, or solitaire, will run. Truly they've created the "most secure antivirus ever".

And why should they release their headcount unless other companies do the same? All releasing that info does is make them a lightning rod for criticism by politicians who need someone to bash, especially while the anti-business party is in power. IBM needs to do whatever they have to to survive and compete. If the US has made it difficult, the natural response is to shift resources elsewhere. If the govt. seriously wanted to get businesses to come back here instead of fleeing, they'd get rid of corporate taxes. All of a sudden the US would be a tax haven for business, jobs would come here as businesses relocated to the US, and we the consumers would not get stuck subsidizing corporate taxes. After all, if the govt makes it more expensive to do business here, a corporation must either 1) move to a better tax climate, or 2) pass along the costs in their pricing. All the additional jobs would raise lots of money in payroll taxes, social security and medicare would be better funded due to the increase in jobs, and the US would be much more competitive in the world.

The gift that is life/consciousness/whatever you want to call it, is that choice! Even if you choose to not believe in it, you have still excised your right to choose.

Yes humans are animals in nature, and creatures of habit. But it's that choice that separates us from the animals.

After all you know, Arthur C Clarke predicted this in 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in 2010

The asian manager of the reserve experienced massive penile growth over the past three years, and when asked about the secret of his "LONGevity", he credited "eating tiger pen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchinese herbs".

Up until they did this, I was still paying a legacy $2.50/mth fee for Compuserve and my old account could still log in to the service at gateway.compuserve.com via telnet. You could not do much in there of course anymore, but I was also once a sysop, and I still knew how to get into the PRO area, do directory listings of their hard drives (and see files with dates dating back to the 70â(TM)s), and with that knowledge run some of the old apps from the command line (like biorythms, and some adventure games), and even things like TE2TRN.EXE (the program that allowed the TI-99/4A TE2 cartridge to transfer files from Compuserve. And of course who could forget the Filge editor? I used to log in every few months for a little nostalgia, as well as amazement that the old systems were still up this long

This was of course needed for the first build of Skynet. Learning compilers will then create "learning software". I for one welcome our new terminator-like overlords.

I personally prefer Coders Against Verifiable Integration Tools In Excellent Sourcecode, or CAVITIES