I've had preorders of both Guild Wars 2 and Secret World, and have just cancelled the TSW order and will be buying more family copies of Guild Wars.

The world, story and especially fantastic writing for NPCs seem to put TSW ahead, but the gameplay mechanics are so frustrating that I had no enthusiasm for logging on any more. It would work well as a single-player RPG but the game mechanics and monthly fee limit its appeal in its current form.

It supports the point that "skip MMR = disease magnet" is false.

It's true that in hindsight Wakefield was running a scam but at the time, for a concerned parent with no medical training, it was far less clear.

The comments here are perpetrating a myth that those who avoid the MMR vaccine for their children are therefore not vaccinating them. This is very far from the truth. At the height of the scare we decided to avoid the MMR for our two children, arranging instead for them to have three single vaccines, given a little time apart.

When they were due for their booster shots, the doctor tested them and said their immunity levels were way higher then he expected and they didn't need the normal booster. We mentioned that we'd skipped MMR and the doctor confirmed that the single vaccines give a higher level of protection.

In summary, I was suspicious about the science behind the MMR scare but decided not to chance it - all I risked was a little money, by skipping the free government MMR and paying myself for the three singles. Even though the MMR risk seemed very low, it wasn't zero.

Avoiding the MMR was a prudent, sensible choice. The hysteria that skipping MMR must inevitably lead to unprotected children is itself scaremongering. If measles is rising it's simple parental negligence and nothing to do with MMR.

What about Netvouz http://www.netvouz.com/ who seem to be just like Delicious and have been around for a few years (2003 ?). I don't know who owns them, though.

That's almost been done. UK TV 'Gadget Show' has someone who'd never flown a plane (real or sim) try to learn to fly just using a sim, then they tried to fly a circuit in the real thing. The video's here:

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/challenge?page=2

(it's 'simulator challenge' parts one, two, three) He did surprisingly well.

Nope. Nice try though.

Click on the link that the average of 77k is based off of. It is coming from one job, that is that of a "SUPERINTENDENT Nassau County Coop Building." It just happened to have the words "garbage" and "one 'man' job" in the description.

http://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=2865f82583fa2637

Right. When the music execs were originally experimenting with DRM they tried to spin it to the public as a feature to help consumers manage their rights. As if it adds some sort of benefit to the consumer, or lets us do something that we previously could not do. They wouldn't just say it was an anti-piracy measure, they try to blow smoke up everyone's ass by claiming it was something that actually benefited consumers instead of restricting them. So not only do they assume that we're criminals, but they also assume we're borderline retarded.