Assuming that God is actually a nice guy, which is by no means certain.

"I was born a billion years too soon," that is my usual mournful reply when seeing nonsense like this. Maybe after a billion years of social progress this would be a world worth bringing children into, until then, nope.

It's just sad that the powers that be at Hasbro and WotC don't realize this.

Well, let's be honest dudes, they'd do a far better job at relationships than we would. They'd probably almost do as well as gay men actually.

Yeah, I notice this in other areas of law enforcement too actually. Many police chiefs and even FBI agents say that the laws they already have are sufficient to catch most criminals. All they want is more staff and the money to process all the data they can already legally get. But that is so expensive.

Yep, which is one of the reasons why I didn't buy or move onto D&D 4. That and WotC's dropping of the OGL. I'll stick with 3.5 and Pathfinder.

Web servers, or more specifically, the content management scripts within web servers. This code could be added as modules to WordPress or Movable Type and so on. It would be a set of code in each server that would talk to each other participating server. Here are some examples.

I loved that comic when I first read it about 8 years ago. I still love it. My life was a lot like that believe it or not.

I agree.

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Sour grapes and grumpy old veterans aside, I think he has one valid point. I dislike the centralized walled gardens third party web services create. If social networking were totally descentralized, there'd be no need for Facebook and such.

I think I stayed away from WoW partly for that reason actually. But mostly I stayed away because I was tired of all the Tolkien-esque fantasy tropes. I'm a table-top RPG'er and I get enough that already. When I play a computer game, I want something I don't get from the table-top experience.

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"You mentioned on other threads that the Casimir effect couldn't get the required energy distributions, is that because it couldn't achieve the required negative energy density at any scale or because generating a large enough amount would require overly large plates?"

He didn't like buskers or street musicians though:

He'd hardly be the first Net pioneer who said things along these lines.

Cosplay, clearly a young person's game.

"Enforcement and vigilance are where those in power are held in check."

"...physicists seem to lower the negative mass equivalence required pretty much every time they take a look at the problem."

Yep, I have to agree. This economist seems to be pretending that no economic activity happened before 1700 and we know that not to be true. Granted that records are sketchy back in the Roman or Egyptian days but we do know that a whole range of complicated economic events happened at those times.