Sorry if you feel that way, but I hope you could understand the why behind the game. The game was definitely made to make people aware that nuclear technology (as we have it right now) can’t be contained or controlled or handled, and thus should not be used in the first place. I didn’t cause Fukushima, I want that this will never ever happen again, and I try to point that out, and I want a stop of all nuclear power plants and get the government to spend money on solving this energy issue once and for all, with a clean and save solution, and not spending it on “bailing out” rich bankers… sorry again if that offends you. If we do not change our behavior these people died in vain. Cheers Arend

Jimmy is right; that game was awful. Nuclear power being used is inevitable. the larger government figures see it as cheap and effective. it makes for a good replacement for coal. while meltdowns are awful and catastrophic, we need power to support our feeble human wants and needs. To say that the politicians act on our behalf is blasphemy in this modern day and age. we do not live in a democratic nation, rather we are all living in a big-top circus tent, watching the show go on. we can’t do much to stop the show, but we do pay to watch it go on.
We have lost our voice as “the people” that force the politician’s hand,
And we may never see it come back until a revolution.

@maverick145 – what if we just need to develop an energy source that is powerful, clean, and save, and people died because we were complacent enough not to send the money on research? Cheers Arend

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t, I’m saying that we need a revolution in order to do so.
I’m al for Clean fuel. for instance hydrofracking is supposedly a “good clean source of fuel”, yet a man can light his tap water on fire because of the chemicals in the water table left by the oil retrieval process.
also, my name doesn’t have an E in it for a reason…..it’s not an accident :P

revolution sounds rather violent – I agree though that a drastic change is necessary. It might be sufficient to invest more in science and our solution might be at hand rather soon. Cheers Arend – sorry for the E

i wasn’t offend or anything, but i was just pointing it out since you seemingly noticed. it goes back to my childhood….
regardless; revolutions can be non-violent, but seeing as many government officials would rather stay in power and have the money and contacts necessary to repress the common man. im not saying Obama, rather the extremist groups like any of the Tea Party psychos.
investing in science is definitely what needs to be done if we are to try and get back to the top of the world and back on our feet.

Well, democracy only works if the people are educated, and the better educated the people the better the democracy … problem is that Bush and the other conservatives did everything to keep the people uneducated. And now we have this bunch idiots never traveled to another country running for president and 45% of the population thinks that is the American Dream … Cheers Arend

agreed!
If we could just make a difference somehow…..voting doesn’t fly any more; it really changes nothing…
Well, the next elections will most likely end in a republican being elected, and Obama just sitting back and waiting for the inevitable Depression, and he will then say something along the lines of “I tried, but you wouldn’t listen. look where your ignorance has gotten us.”
does anyone else realize that the shit the Tea-party is trying to pull is the exact same thing that the republicans did to get us into the Great Depression. although it wasn’t that alone, it was a major part of it. Eliminating credit would be nice. it is good in theory, but it just doesn’t work out usually and people just abuse it…

i like our chats ^__

Well, one idea would be to increase taxes drastically, suddenly people would have a very high incentive to be interested in politics, and the one who returns the most to the people will govern… maybe?
I guess the US in not going for a depression, but more likely for a socialistic revolution… after all if you treat the poor bad enough and you have to many of them, you country becomes socialistic or goes to communism… how is that for a change?
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not sure if we are going to have a depression or not, only time will tell i guess.
lets hope we don’t turn to communism. not that the idea isn’t good or anything (Marxism at least) but history shows what occurs from it.
maybe we’ll have a sort of french revolution (hopefully with out the guillotines and dead people) and the majority will overpower the ridiculous minority (of wealth and land owners that is. not racial at all)

can you code mavrick? I just recycled a plastic bottle and I hate doing that, I would love to have a single law saying that there should be only one plastic used and immediately all our trash would become recycle-able, would be fun to make a game about that idea.. Cheers Arend

I can, I just don’t have any time… my wife just found out that adopting a black kid is cheaper than a white kid… and I bet that even religious adoption agencies have that policy Cheers Arend

most likely a greater number of black children than white children in the adoption system. to sway people to adopt a black child, they use the ploy of lowering the cost in a tough economy. not necessarily a bad thing, because those children would most likely want a good home.

Sure but there is no dollar value assignable to human life and I would like my tax dollars to be used to make this free instead. I think a single joint strike fighter less would cover that gap… Cheers Arend