Dicecaster

Hawaii. Is New Zealand even a good vacation spot? Would you rather be burnt at the stake (on a windy day, it might take a while) or go by drowning?

Granted. The game is fantastic and runs flawlessly, your hardware is unharmed, and the game was sent to you as a gift from the company, free of charge. Then came the mobs. No, not mobs, legions. Tens of thousands of mindless, Elder Scroll-starved gamers come ambling toward your doorstep. They rip right through the walls of your home in a furious torrent. They see you, playing the game, and rip you apart, limb from limb, with startling ease. They claw with their bare hands at the computer tower and, triumphantly, one out of the horde holds the disc in his hand for a brief moment, standing frozen with a look of glee upon his face, until he too is shredded to ribbons by the rest of the writhing, cord-covered mass, and a bloody battle ensues, going on for hours. Finally, at about midnight, stands one shell of a man, fragments of his headset boring into his skull. He laughs a malevolent laugh, and then drops dead of weariness. I wish for pie.

I honestly don't know how exactly job programs work, would you please give me a basic overview so I can better understand the subject? Something like job training. The real thing to get people employed would be getting the private sector to help out. I am not even sure what to do with that anymore. Alright, so job programs are programs created by the government to get people trained so that they can have the necessary skills to get a job? If so, that's going to involve money, and most (if not all) government money comes either from taxes or from newly printed money, neither of which is a good idea.

I honestly don't know how exactly job programs work, would you please give me a basic overview so I can better understand the subject?

Ultimately lawmakers do create the environment, keep taxes low and regulation minimal and we get a business friendly environment. Tax the hell of out business to fund an ever increasing state and you get what we see in the U.S and E.U. Government also has a role to play in when it comes to exports, they're the ones who negotiate agreements with those governing overseas markets. There is a lot government can do, sadly these days our political class is full of brain dead baboons with very little knowledge of anything outside of politics. Oh, I think I get it now. I believe that, were government to be omitted entirely, business-friendly environments would create themselves*. However, government exists, and it currently has such a great effect on the business atmosphere, that it does essentially decide what that atmosphere is like. Therefore, while that wasn't originally one of its intended functions, I suppose the government must also maintain a good business atmosphere, and therefore I think that we are in agreement. *Keep in mind that I'm not saying that government should be done away with, I'm just giving an example situation.

It is not the government's job to create such an environment; one of the government's job is to protect citizens from harming each other (basically). If it does its job right, the people will automatically create the environment you speak of. Governments are responsible for fiscal policy, regulation and taxation, all of these shape the environment which we conduct business in. That's true, and they should try to take that into consideration and try not to affect business environments negatively, but it is not their job to create such environments in the first place.

The Men in Black come to your house and kill you for witnessing the effects of good internet. I wish I had an SNES version of Earthworm Jim.

It is not the government's job to create such an environment; one of the government's job is to protect citizens from harming each other (basically). If it does its job right, the people will automatically create the environment you speak of.

Granted, but it's only because they saw your post and now won't forgive you for the next ten years (yes, this includes the repo guys). I wish I had a blog. P.S. People like having quotes in their signature because it makes them look stately. Behold:

It is. It happens to you. Karma laughs in the remains of your face. I wish I could be the President.

Granted. I'm sorry, I know it's breaking the rules, but that's just so amazingly great that I don't have the heart to corrupt it. I wish I was more cynical.

Granted, they fall on you and cut you to ribbons. They can't identify the body because it looks as though it's gone through a paper shredder, so you don't even get a proper burial. I wish everyone and everything were grammatically correct. And, as long as wishes and corruptions are still going on, I don't see why any other discussions would do anything but add to the amusement. EDIT: Sorry, didn't see your post. It's tamed so well that it doesn't do jack, it just sits around yawning a lot and eventually dies of laziness.

Granted, but they're so hastily written that the spelling is absurdly incomprehensible. I wish WoW would go completely free to play. I thought Doom 3 was the only one where he was on Mars. Then again, that's the only one I've played.

Granted. It works so well, in fact, that it actually causes your hand to grow two or three new fingers. I wish the devil icon would go to hell.

Granted, but half the planet's population move to another world. I wish for $60.00 cash.

Granted, but it's all three weeks old. I wish for a DM generous enough to give me more than one Ring of Three Wishes.

Granted, but BlueDanube kills you with revenge crits. I wish Youtube had a filter that showed only the good videos.

Granted, but it brings on the next ice age. I wish I had the powers of a 20th level sorcerer. @Thor. Speaking of which, are you still part of the Anti-Sheep Movement?

Granted, but it's got so much MSG in it that you die 6 minutes after consumption. I wish people would stop using the "it fries your computer" corruption.

Granted. However, they have attempted to go all the way with their latest model, and the laptop is so alien to you that you find difficulty in operating with even its most basic functions. I wish for a Sandvich. And Natascha. Ooh, and the Eviction Notice.

Granted, but because everyone stopped calling it legendary, it now sucks. I (like a quarter of the nation) wish that Firefly wasn't cancelled. Note: I expressly forbid ANYONE saying ANYTHING about it sucking, EVER!

Granted, but at your own peril. http://www.krisallan.com/gendoc2/images/0024-Far-UK-8-Dead-sheep-au.jpg Turns out Thor. is the shepherd. I wish I had the power of 42. By the way, 10gb at $20/byte is $21,474,836,480

Simplify all you want Love has rarely been logical, hunger is a physiological response to a lack of nourishment, don't eat an sooner or later you die..simply biology. All the attempts to scientifically reduce love to a set of equations have failed in the past and I suspect will fail in the future. Why some of you want to reduce this to an experiment that can be reproduced is beyond me. The only conclusion I can come to from the 'love is scientifically' explainable crowd is that they have yet to have had the true experience, the madness, the joy, the depths of despair and the peaks of fulfillment that comes with finding your true soul mate. I pity you, because that has been the goal of most of humanity since time immemorial. Post script: Dan3345's point is spot on, couldn't agree more. There it is, in it's full glory: reduce. None of us have been saying that we want to reduce love to anything. Everything HAS to have a cause. It is literally impossible for something not to. It doesn't have to be a physical or chemical cause; if you said that magical elves caused love, we could argue that, because it's a cause. Furthermore, it is or can be possible to observe the cause of something. We (at least, I) are/am saying that it is or can be possible for humans to understand the cause(s) of love. That's it. It will still hold all the qualities you describe, and may become even more fascinating should we come to understand its origin. @greywaste Dude, that's the guy you want to go off on? Of all the at least semi-mean/rude things that have been said, that seems like a weird place to step in.

Granted, but you PULL THE PIN! I wish I had SONAR, like a bat.

Granted. http://files.sharenator.com/bullet_peace_demotivational_poster_help_demotivational_posters-s440x352-39704-580.jpg That, kids, is a cop-out answer! I wish Dragon Age wouldn't lag so much on my PC.