Gorgon

Now now be fair. You get to chose between voting for the glorious leader, and voting for the glorious leader.

It wouldn't surprise me if he rigged it so that everyone turns out that way.

So hey, I've got some free time coming soon, is the game any good ?. Give it an overall '?/10' pls.

~sigh~ Wow that is really bad in-game porn. The Witcher is Oscar material by comparison

We have to legislate against the bad, knowing where to stop that's the question.

Well we don't need to legislate against the desirable effects now do we.

*shrug*

First of all; A sustained and constant increase in profits is impossible, so any system that has that as a prerequisite to function is inherently broken It's not a function of the system, the system goes through boom and bust cycles, what is unsustainable is the expectation to continually post bigger earnings. In the long term when the economy has undergone a long and sustained boom every so often theorists wonder if we have turned a new leaf, but another depression inevitably comes along anyway. What I was saying here in the first post was that large companies should be held accountable for the economic damages they cause society, and that we should make it alot harder for them to wreak havoc by behaving irresponsably by, for instance, laying off workers when the company isnt losing money. It seems like common sense to me If one did that the companies, all those that could, would simply move production to somewhere where they could have a higher degree of control. Enough of them have already. The basic operation of competition is dog eat dog, we try through legislation to get everyone to behave nice and follow a set of rules to the game, but one can only do so much, after which new investors would simply stay away.

What are they spending all that money on. If it's schools and law enforcement those are traditionally things people are willing to pay for. As for why no one takes the long view, a politician needs to bring it home on a yearly basis or lose his job so naturally band aid type solutions abound.

True enough, the publisher promotes, decides which deserving game site gets the ad dollars, etc.

Professional reviewers and game review sites are nearly all whores who share a symbiotic relationship with the game developers with obvious incentive to avoid a clear thumbs down rating. Average Joe gamers have preconceptions about games but they aren't nearly as predictable, it also helps if you know a little about their persons and what type of games they like. Take for instance Mkreu describing the Gothic series in terms comparable to the second coming of Christ. You learn to take these things with a grain of salt. Both vararities of reviewer are subjective but the gamer is better at stating up front in no uncertain terms what his preferences are.

Interesting concentration of Atheists in the world's oceans.

Also, what's with the rage about conservative parties with racist undertones in Europe? Have you ever been to Europe for a longer period of time? Do you understand that there always be fringe parties in every open society? It is generally acknowledged that there has been a marked diffusion and increase in such parties over the last decade, what most of them have in common is that they feed on a general resentment of immgrants and immigration related problems. The concern about such parties is genuine, they have gained political influence and cooperate with traditionally 'respectable' parties who would usually refrain being associated with them.

Bongs are uncivilised, the dose you tupically get puts you to sleep unless you are smoke too much already. The gentleman rolls his own joints, which is something of an art as well, in order to savor both the flavor and the effect.

What a complete ****. I hope he goes away for long enough for everyone to forget about him.

Well not everybody can just zone out from their nagging worries.

Who were initially so inept they almost allowed Germany to do the impossible, because their command structure had been devastated by Stalin's purges.

But we are talking about voting on whether or not officers get to whip disobedient subordinates. In any case with independently thinking men and women the prospect of voting, or to be more exact, disagreement in the middle of battle becomes real. People need to be able to shut up and do what they are told. Or at least that's the prevailing idea.

lol How do you think the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War picked the leader of their military units? How do you think the early Bolshevik-aligned soldiers organized themselves? Officer removal via vote has historically played a pretty major role amongst ultraleftist western revolutionaries. Those would presumably be the anarchist militias which proved totally incapable of a single offensive operation? I think Che Guevara was on an expedition in Africa before he got killed in South America, didn't amount to anything though. The argument is a little thin if we are just talking about militaries and discipline. Without question the most able forces are based around it. As a redcoat in the Brittish army circa 18th ct. you could expect to be whipped or shot for disobeying orders. Wasn't pretty, but it also meant no one wanted to be the first to break formation and retreat, which is why they out performed the American revolutionaries again and again. The democratic process is too slow to be effective in battle, maybe in future it will be possible through some kind of neural hive mind network. In fact such decision making could be superior to a traditional command hierarchy.

It's desperation. You know love has some very unpleasant sister emotions.

It would have been a lot easier to swallow if we were talking about first contact, and not the x-files type government cover up reaching back to the 60s. You can't keep a secret that big for that many years. It's just not practically possible. On the other hand the existence of alien life is entirely probable, which most scientists concede without being able to offer any percentages of course.

That would be Hiro

Having worked in one I concur with Humanoid.

It would appear that the teachers cunning plan to force you all to think for yourselves and formulate your own opinions is bearing fruit.

That all depends. Sweatshops are profitable because they mistreat the workforce, and they are a part of the whole that makes up Capitalism.