more importantly - build the confidence you need to jump into the cockpit on a regular basis when you get the chance (instead of doubting your abilities and hoping someone with better skill flies it). This is a very good point. I started flying the moment I started playing the game. This may be bec...

Why would you expect people to respond with seriousness and genuine arguments to such uninformed nonsense? It's clear to me that you are either a troll or a moron. If you're incapable of having a civilized argument why don't you just shut up altogether? Since you haven't got anything else to say it...

In case someone missed a link provided earlier by Massive Quasars, here it is again ( Scientists find proof that privatising fishing stocks can avert a disaster ): http://www.economist.com/science/displa ... d=12253181 Two examples from Public Finance : Kenya banned all hunting in 1977, and its elep...

but I think anyone can call a vote...not just admins. But I'm not sure. Yeah, you can (though some servers have disabled voting altogether which makes little sense) but that hardly ever leads anywhere. But if non-votes are counted as "no" then it's no surprise. Splash Damage should defini...

Yeah... it's merely a lol because i can't be fucking bothered to respond in seriousness, i wouldn't know where to start. There's not a single true thing in that paragraph, it's all twisted lies and horrible madness. Only a freak of nature could think of such ridiculous things. Oh, that's a convinci...

The good thing about this game is that there's a low tolerance of moronics and 99% of the players will help you kill dickheads or kick them if they know what's going on. :) Lucky you. I have found it almost impossible to have players who kill you for vehicles kicked. Any idea if servers get to deci...

We are forced to pay for something we don't want in exactly the same way with our privately-owned cable packages...You have to buy packages. That is not the same. FoxNews needs viewers to stay alive. Therefore it is subject to market mechanisms. If people don't like it, they don't watch it and it i...

I'm going to ignore posts with pathetic ad hominem arguments. And just for kicks I'm gonna go ahead and bet $100 that pretty much anyone who's "pro free market" has forgotten about the billions of "emergency funds" for a couple of select airlines after 9/11....airlines that were ...

Is freedom of speech affected? I imagine you would say that the individuals' right to broadcast is affected, but under a purely capitalist system an average person like me wouldn't own a TV station, but I do own a stake in the BBC as a licence payer (not that I support that system, I think it shoul...

The funny thing about "free open markets" is that - given time and no restraints - they ultimately end up as a monopoly. This has always made me chuckle because if you know what a monopoly is then you'll know that it's the same as a communist system...one all-powerful company that dominat...

Which brings up another area in which regulation is obviously helpful: hunting. If it weren't for government control of animal populations, many of the awesome species that exist over there would have already been hunted out of existence. That is not a good example. Hunting can be turned into profi...

Many natural resources are not so easily compartmentalized, and the consequences of actions taken by their respective owners not limited therein (and therefore not priced accordingly). Of course you can't privatize air, but steps should be taken to privatize whatever we can. For example, when it co...

Externalities, even with privately allocated natural resources, will persist. Rivers are part of ecosystems, the total cost of such pollution likely exceeds the private cost placed upon the polluting firm in your example. But externalities, which by definition are outside the market mechanism, are ...

Actually go0f's other thread is another example of why capitalism and "market efficiency" cannot be trusted with the "public well being" and why regulation is needed. Regulation usually makes matters much worse not to mention that regulation usually is the source of inefficiency...

The whole point of a corporation is to remove individual responsibility, which naturally means that no one will take responsibility for the public well being if the government won't. The whole point of a corporation is to make profit. That is its responsibility and in order to do so it must offer a...

Bots are nothing - try playing against experienced human players and they'll do the same with a machinegun.

You lost me on the excessive government spending bit, perhaps long run mounting debt and servicing requirements I'm mainly referring to the kind of spending that has destroyed Latin American economies (usually combined with poor monetary policy). Rich countries with stable economies have of course ...

seremtan wrote:lol, capitalism saved by government, again

Lol, practically every single depression has been caused by excessive government spending, poor monetary policy (manipulation of money supply and exchange rates) or fatal restrictions on trade.

That's what you get for voting Democrats. But for the time being this is better than what's been going on for years now: feeding irrational behavior by implying to investors that if Freddie and Fannie (or any other major financial institution) ever face trouble the government would step in to save t...

gulli wrote:waiting month for a beta key maybe i will get an invite here
thx in advance

m3diocrity [at] yahoo [dot] de

Okay, just finished sending an invitation.

Edit: Also sent an invitation to Mox.

I've got two invites so the next two who want them can have them. Don't pm, just post below.

-For God's sake GDF Covert Ops - you have Third Eye Cameras so use them! Place them on strategic locations, not for the purpose of killing but for the tiny radar they have. For example, when a round starts it usually takes a while for an incoming radar to arrive and deploy so in the meantime throw a...

Do you guys usually stick with one class throughout the whole campaign or do you swap according to what is needed at any given moment? Ever since Wolf:ET I've always more or less sticked with one class throughout the campaign. The downside is of course that sometimes you have to rely on n00bs to com...

Actually it's the GDF team that's always full and you have like ten observers waiting for a spot. But what obsidian said earlier about n00bs joining the GDF could be true.

The amateur mappers I've noticed getting picked up by companies tend to be the kind of individuals who're able to produce original, unique maps, not technically uber-detailed but conceptually original. To create such maps you need to have, as suggested above, passion and an online portfolio helps a ...