Suing them isn't hard. Getting recompense after lawyers' fees, in a timely manner? That's the hard part.

Well, yeah. That's the point. It's basically IRC with a centralized location for storing pictures, char sheets, combat maps, etc. I mean, sure, you could set up your own wiki and your own IRC channel and have them both open at the same time.

I'd like to see a more thorough investigation with this method. The paper says they used 33 reviews from Gamespot UK to collect the data, and while I don't disagree with its findings (Gotta have good controls, bad plot doesn't matter), I wouldn't turn Table 5 (categories by importance) into a Game Design Bible. Then again, the paper does say "This paper is primarily intended to inspire further work in the field."

The power companies would love to have this discussion but (as pointed out elsewhere) federal law has fixed the price at exactly the same price they charge you.

Because all the people boycotting Blizzard over bnetd has surely done them a lot of harm, right?

High prices at launch are a tax on impatient people. Also, the FPS genre is relatively overcrowded, so if you have a good/new product come out for half what the other guys are charging that's a great way to stand out.

Also on my list of words whose use has been corrupted of all meaning, "Paradigm".

If by "grid" you mean "public waterworks", then sure. I was thinking you could build it into a new house and not have to deal with local water at all, but then you have to worry about waste water, so you can't really save the costs of laying pipe. I'm stuck trying to think of an area that's humid enough, has power, but can't rely on filtering/storing rain water or desalinization.

I think what's going on here is a play on the fear of local tap water, where no amount of filtering can substitute for completely removing yourself from the source.

Actually, I didn't think the bill of rights applied to civil law - but I could be wrong.