I remember the days when BioWare wasn’t EA’s BioWare. Those were better days.

Yeah, but I assume the poster was Canadian, so it’s $132, not 90 USD.

AFAIK this is different from the original auction house mount. That one had a auctioneer and a vendor who could repair things. This one comes with an auctioneer and a “mailbox” NPC.

For some people whose purpose in playing WoW is to make money trading, this makes it marginally easier. Instead of having to park your mount next to a mailbox, you can both post your auctions and collect your money on one mount. But, since most people doing auction stuff also need access to a bank, it doesn’t mean they can easily just abandon the city and live out in the country.

Many of the people who might consider this mount are already playing for free because they make enough money in-game to buy a token every month.

Also, it’s $132 if you’re Canadian, otherwise it’s 90 USD.

It’s $132, it’s only 90 if you pay in USD.

Who’s Chris Robert?

Don’t get me wrong, nearly every fighter plane looks cool. But, it’s just different varieties of cool. Like, a lot of the US planes look Lamborghini-cool, with hard surfaces and so on. The Russian / Soviet planes just look more sculpted.

And, if the rule of cool doesn’t apply, then why did P-40 fighter planes have shark’s mouths?

I dunno. The nose of the MiG-21 looks weird, but I really like the look of the delta wings, the rudder and the ailerons. The F-104 with nothing mounted on the wingtips looks like a dart, which is cool I suppose. With the typical big fuel tanks on the wingtips it looks like some kind of catamaran.

IMO basically every Soviet / Russian jet has looked better than American jets.

I like the look of the MiG-15, the 21, etc. But, IMO the jets really got beautiful right as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

The SU-27 is a beautiful plane, the MiG-29 too. It just seems like with some of these jets, the American equivalents were designed by computer and manufactured precisely to spec. While, it feels like some of the Soviet planes involved guys with hammers trying to make a beautiful curved surface.

It also helps that the Russians often use colourful paint jobs, while the US uses flat boring grey that shows every flaw.

You bought Winzip!?

Or, what if a government granted a monopoly on sidewalks within the city to SideWalking Inc. SideWalking spent all kinds of money setting up turnstiles all over the busiest sidewalks equipped with NFC readers, then ran an ad campaign telling people where to buy their sidewalk authorization cards, etc. And then they realized that people were just hopping over the turnstiles! Who recoups the cost to put up all the turnstiles and install all the NFC readers?

Hey, you’re that guy who doesn’t know anything about copyright, but has strong opinions, right?

In other words “You’re right, I don’t know anything about copyright.”

Stealing what from him?

All that’s happening here is a bunch of computer nerds have figured out how to get things for free

No, all that’s happened is that the state has convinced you that it’s reasonable to grant someone a monopoly on the expression of an idea that lasts something like 120 years. I bet you’ve never even stopped to question that, or that you even know what the length of the original copyright term is. I bet you don’t know the history of Hollywood, and how it ties in with copyright infringement. Or, how when the US was a new country it immediately ignored all the copyrights imposed by the British monarch.

Same thing as all the looters in California who know that they can steal up to $1,000 of merchandise from any brick and mortar store, with no consequences

Suuuuure… That happened. And now you’re conflating theft with copyright infringement again. They’re not at all the same.

and running out the door

Why would they be running out the door if there are no consequences? It’s almost as if there would be consequences if they were caught.

Is this the kind of world you want to live in?

You mean, the current world? The one that works according to the rules you’re advocating?

Steal what?

Movies, video games and music aren’t “products”.

If I want something, I need to pay for it. That’s how the world works.

Yes, it is. Isn’t that a shame? They’ve convinced you that that’s normal, when it isn’t. We could make the world a better place.

By “product” do you mean idea?

On one hand, sure, the British took a lot of things from other places when their empire spanned the globe. And, it sucks for places that had their stuff taken that it is no longer where it was.

On the other hand the British Museum is probably one of the safest places in the world for these things. The museum cares about preservation, knows how to do it, and has the funds to do it. And, while there’s undoubtedly corruption in the UK, there’s a very low chance that any of these things is going to disappear out of the museum and into some powerful person’s private collection.

Mohamed Salah is standing in front of a statue from Egypt, which was taken from Egypt to London. But, the British didn’t manage to take the Buddhas of Bamiyan from Afghanistan to London, and what happened? The Taliban blew them up. The British also didn’t fully loot Iraq when they controlled that territory, which meant that in the 2003 war the museum was looted but not by people who wanted treasures for a public museum. The poorer and less politically stable a country is, the greater the chances that their cultural treasures will be stolen or destroyed.

Despite the repression and corruption, Egypt is now probably stable enough that if any of these items were returned to Egypt, they would probably be well treated and put on display for Egyptians to see. The power of the military in Egypt and the level of corruption probably means a few small items would disappear from the museum, but the most important items would make it. But, is Egypt stable enough that the museum would be safe for another 20, 40, 80 years? I have my doubts. I do think London is probably safe for that long.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think the number one priority should be preserving these things for the future. Displaying them for the public should be a lower priority. If there are items like scrolls or clothing that are too delicate to even display behind a glass case, they should be stored away. I know that’s how they handle things at the Smithsonian, and I assume the British Museum is the same. Because of that, my bias is that the most important cultural items should be in the care of the richest museums in the world, even if it means that they’re not in the places they came from.

It’s a typo for YMCA.

Do you feel like YOU deserve to get paid for your work & effort & training & time?

No, I deserve to be paid what people have agreed to pay me. The work and effort and so-on is irrelevant.