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Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So...

Simple question, simple thread. :cool: My values (in order of importance): 1. Rationality 2. Justice 3. Individuality Out of those values, rationality clearly is the most important to me. I strongly dislike irrational and emotion-based reasoning. Rationality is also needed to establish...

I just happened to read an article written by the Mises Institute. The text is quite long but here are most of the main points: Since I agree to nearly all of the above statements, it's of no use to repeat the text. But what's your opinion? Also see this...

I just found an interesting article on the possible emerging of superhuman machine intelligence. That page mainly explores the different possibilities of how "the singularity" might happen and what would be the consequences of such an event. Obviously, there is no clear answers for this, but we...

Inspired by the recent depression thread, I decided to make a poll about how often people here feel lonely. In my opinion, depression is very often caused by loneliness. What's your opinion? Additionally, do you know many people who are lonely? What should be done to help them? Well, ummh...

Last month the UN conducted a worldwide survey. The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure... In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant. In Eastern Europe...

If this have been already posted, well, then you can post again and increase your post count. ;) During playing my newest game as the Inca (monarch level), I begun to wonder if it was too easy. Incas are expansionist and agricultural, so I got my second city after about 15 turns from a goody...

Some time ago I was playing MOO2 and decided to make my home planet a farming colony, which then supplied the food to my whole empire. Other planets in the star system were quite good production/science colonies. I didn't yet have the terraforming tech, so there wasn't many good other farming...

I've lately played Capitalism 2 very much and I like it because of its complexity and quite accurate modelling of real life. Also sometimes Transport Tycoon Deluxe is nice if you like designing those spaghetti railway networks. :crazyeye: So, what's your favourite business simulator?

Some weeks ago, Nokia announced their sales growth did not meet exceptations by a couple of percents. Soon after that the Helsinki stock exchange's Hex index fell by 10%, not to mention the Nokia's stock, which fell even more. Here is some numbers of Nokia's contribution to the Finnish economy...

So, have you cheated while playing a multiplayer game? Come on, you can confess here, nobody will bash you. :D What was the game? What kind of cheat it was? Did anyone notice? Or have you noticed someone other cheating in MP games? What do you think about cheating in general?

Has anyone of you played Chromatron? It's a great (freeware) game where you direct laser beams through various objects. However, the later puzzles are insanely hard. :crazyeye: I have IIRC managed to complete 35 of 50 Chromatron 1's levels without any kind of spoilers or hints. Don't ask how...

What if Saddam had invaded Kuwait in 1980 instead of starting the Iran-Iraq war? How would the world have reacted, particularly USSR/US? I thought about this a moment and found it an interesting and very complicated scenario. :crazyeye:

What's your opinion on the usefulness of polls in the media or the web? Do you vote on polls often? Do they affect too much on people's opinions for example during elections? It would be nice if you indicated your place of residence too. And I'll dislike anyone who doesn't understand the...