[MattSavinar]

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Hi Matt,

If you want to data-mine there are easier ways of doing it. Giving Aaaron a couple of million is one (grin). Alternatively, give some Malaysian hacker a mere ten thousand and he'd probably have all our IP addresses logged & geo-tracked pretty quick...

The alternative, I guess, is to waste loads of public money on some strange psudo-reality exercise which proves nothing except that when let loose in cyberspace, a certain group of people have an obsession with accumulating virtual gold and killing each other. AKA 'jerking off' (grin).

JPL

[JPL]

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Good point.

I still stand behind whatever I said . . . just because.

[Leanan]

This article has an overview of what's going on with this game, how it works, etc.:

World Without Oil Launches

I wonder if picking LiveJournal was a good choice. According to a recent study, LiveJournal is barely connected to the rest of the Internet. Blogger, which is more integrated with the rest of the net, might have been a better choice, at least if the point is to spread the word.

[MC2]

All I gotta say is "very interesting!"

Ran across the sim-game website on the peakoilblog this am. Art imitating reality??

Anyone else get the feeling we're in this really big lull before a storm? Stocks are up at new records daily, all quiet on the eastern front. I dunno, just a feeling something is going to go POP really soon....

[evilgenius]

Yeah, Radio 4 had a guy on this am talking about the black swan theory. You know, that until the English discovered Australia all the people thought that swans were white. They laughed at people who said anything else was possible. Finding black swans changed everything.

I was in the super market a couple of days ago and the power went out. It was eerie. I thought, this is how it is going to happen. When the first country of import realizes how close things really are and that the time for acting is now they will act to change the world in the black swan way. It will be as if the power simply never came back. All of the new deliveries never came.

I'm thinking that country will be Russia. The US has already acted to change the world with its invasion of Iraq. That is something they would never have dared in cold war times. The reasons they never would have dared go without saying. Why is it that some, the bulk, of those reasons don't still exist although in the context of a different balance of power.

On top of it all, of course, the US has also failed to use a proxy to take over Iraq so there is no one to leave holding the bag while they get out. Also no one to strengthen so that a strong central authority can hold the place together. Chaos seems to be what they actually want for Iraq. That could only be the case if they want to halt what might develop naturally in post war Iraq while they foster something else. That something else is overdue. There is bound to be a world change either when it comes or when it, in spite of US efforts, fails to materialize.

There also will be Russia kicking at the ball while this all goes on.