A side effect of voting blindly Republican for too many years? Seriously, it is odd how this particular part of the US a hotbed of so many things: poverty, diabetes, illiteracy, obesity, radical ("nutcase level") evangelists, racism, homophobia, etc. The Confederate states may still be part of the Union, but they're their own country in a lot of respects.
The amount of automation in that place was amazing, and made it look like they could process 10,000 pounds of mushrooms a day with only 5 people. I'd be curious to know how many people used to have jobs there before they brought in all the technology.
Good points! And I think an additional factor may be that unions (historically, collectively) have already won most of the rights American workers wanted: 40-hour week, pay for overtime, health and safety laws, etc. Now that we have those, what's left for unions to use to get us fired up about membership?
A couple years back, a friend of mine got a tattoo of "I love you" written in her late mother's handwriting. Even those of us who weren't tat-crazy teared up over that one.
Encouraging mods by fans will keep a game selling for years and years (Morrowind is 10 years old and still going strong because of that). Also, the fans will generally make mods that fix bugs or complaints about the original game.
For instance, can anybody make a mod that allows you to display something besides books and weapons for Skyrim? Because I've got a huge collection of amulets that keep throwing themselves on the floor.
For instance, can anybody make a mod that allows you to display something besides books and weapons for Skyrim? Because I've got a huge collection of amulets that keep throwing themselves on the floor.