Recent content by werepossum

MW2 was my most anticipated game, but I'm no longer buying it. The straw that broke the camel's back (the last kick in the teeth?) was the lack of a lean function. Did Infinity Ward suddenly get swept back to 1998? I hung on through lack of mod support, lack of dedicated servers, and every...

Interesting article. Is it not possible to play WOW on a more casual basis? I'm not necessarily saying that your wife should play WOW on a more casual basis - but is it a particular guild or group of friends she has to keep up with? I can't imagine having to play anything on a nightly basis...

That position paper is a thing of beauty, well crafted and well thought out. I agree with every statement, which happily makes me feel better about humanity and the prospects of civilization continuing.

Thanks so much for that well-written story. I knew video games help me with stress, but I didn't know about so much pain reduction. I now know I need to get my daughter a PSP or DS.

Sorry if that's too dramatic. More and more I'm finding The Escapist forums too depressing, and it's starting to make me a little weird I think. I think I'm going to have to leave, at least for awhile, maybe go back to the hard science sites I've been neglecting, maybe do some more writing...

Read the rest of the post. The two statements are perfectly reconciled because we cannot assign either role to either pup. No matter how much we learn specifically about either pup, until we learn the sex of both pups we can never know the sex of either pup. Thus we will never be able to say...

But the idea that all wealth automatically belongs first to government shouldn't be a given, at least not to conservatives and libertarians. Giving a tax break - literally the government taking less of a person's wealth or income - is not a gift, any more than choosing not to rob someone is a...

Quite true. "The other one" refers to the pup which was not identified as male; both the pup which has been identified as male and "the other one" have equal probability of being either pup in the set, in any position in the set, by any ordering of the set, because we have no information about...

This post is more illustrative of the decline in the concept of America than anything I've seen in recent years. From rugged individualism, we have declined to the concept that all wealth belongs first to government, to be equitably distributed on the basis of, well, existence. Any income that...

While all this may be true in other countries, in the US we have what we have. Calling things other than they are recognized here because they differ in different places would be foolish at best.

As is using his middle name, pointing out that he is skinny, calling him liberal, or referring to his past as a community organizer.

My original thought was that all other countries would enact a similar retaliatory tariff, thereby allowing trade in things which have to be brought in from outside the country but also strenuously encouraging each country to be self-sufficient. If Canada's economy is too small to furnish...

Let's see, McCain (who adopted a black daughter and hasn't made a big deal about it) is by extension racist, whilst Obama who wrote in his first book "White folks' greed runs a world in need" is obviously NOT a racist. And McCain is going to raise taxes, whilst Obama is going to lower taxes...

Especially considering that I'm sick and have worked all night.

Here are excerpts from the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the 2003 hearings, when the non-partisan Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) first came to Congress and told them that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being mismanaged and were well on their way to insolvency. There...