you know what else has a female population of ~4%? "Women currently hold 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEO roles and 4.2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEO roles."

the livestream of the EVE alliance tournament has helpful HUDs, commentators who do a reasonable job of explaining what's going on, and they might even have the drawing on screen thing now.

you can blame the US military for the idiotic title - that was the actual name of some Cold War doctrine.

I took riflery for college PE credit and there's definitely a physical component to "the aiming part" - target rifles weigh a fucking ton, your hands and arms start shaking like mad after a while unless you've been doing something else to train strength/endurance (I played drums in marching band for years and everyone…

nope - you can convert $ to isk by buying timecodes and selling them in game, but selling isk for $ is bannable.

it sounds pretty similar but EVE economy is entirely player-driven, with no missions and no AI. if a station is out of missiles, someone will have to go get minerals and haul them to the station so they can start a factory job, or just buy missiles from somewhere else and import them for resale.

summer is prime time for MMOs because all the students are on break and the ones who didn't get a summer job have nothing better to do than play videogames all day.

American broadband is still terrible and going digital-only will cost them a lot of sales from people in rural areas who don't want to spend two days downloading a game on their unreliable 1Mbit DSL.

to put that in perspective, my 8 year old character has ~125m skill points. 50k is about 1 day's worth.

this particular event was advertised on the login screen news a few days in advance. there's also the events forum: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g…

the accountant game is actually really awesome if you're into that sort of thing - almost every item in game is built and sold by players using materials produced and transported by players. it's also completely unregulated so there's constant shenanigans at all levels, from one guy buying out the entire regional…

Goonfleet won a battle the other day because a 3 week old newbie tackled the enemy fleet commander.

if all you ever do is solo grinding, it'll take a long time to accumulate a substantial amount of assets. but if you join an established corp, they'll give you free ships/skillbooks and on-the-job training. every pvp corp always wants more fast tacklers, and you can do that just fine as a newbie if you're willing to…

shooting npcs is boring. mining is even more boring. want some excitement? join a corp that pvps, take up solo piracy (not recommended unless you're very good), or get a bunch of money and start playing market games.

the BSG story of "small group surviving against all odds" happened plenty of times in EVE - a long time ago, Red Alliance (Russians) were down to their last system but fought their way out of it and eventually became part of the "RedSwarm Federation" (Russians, goons, and Frenchmen) that defeated Band of Brothers.

I live in a cheap area (upstate NY) and could buy a house if I really wanted to (4br for $140k half a mile from my apartment, or 3br for $105k) but I don't because then I'd have to deal with all the tedious maintenance like mowing the lawn, and really expensive maintenance like when the furnace goes out in the middle…

what is your job? a few years in corporate hell will probably turn you into a lazy, cynical drunk like me.

how many twentysomethings are ever going to be in a position to buy a house what with their enormous student loans, low pay, and banks no longer offering shitty mortgages to anyone who asks?

2010: DoL says it is "stepping up enforcement nationwide" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?pagewanted=all

welp, time to stop reading this site like I stopped reading the others. this layout is the goddamn worst. everyone says it sucks, the "gawker tech" replies saying it's a work in progress and will get better, then two weeks later they push the exact same garbage on another site and it's not any better at all.