Dear 402, IW, Treyarch, Activision: (Pretty much whoever will listen)

PC Gamers are not always like Console gamers. I'm sure the matchmaking works well on consoles. I'm sure it'd work ok for PC users. This "IWNET" will NEVER, I repeat, NEVER be able to match people up by SKILL. Rank doesn't = skill. Any moron who plays for 2 months, 2 hours per night, on COD4 could reach level 55. It would just take longer and be more painful. I don't want to play against people that have the same rank as me. I like the diversity. If you play with people for a long time (IE, clans, clan servers), you find out who the talented players are, and who has just played a long time. People with more skill, generally know the servers where they will be able to find players that also have the same or higher skill level.

Take a lesson from our current President. He knows that you can't just push people into new things, we'd be pissed and probably revolt (that's what you have here). IF you'd thought this through clearly, then you would have developed this totally unnecessary IWNET, and kept in the dedicated server list. OR, you could have added other options to the dedicated server list that people have said they wanted. COD5 (W@W) brought us the friends list. Unfortunately, it was broken and had no features other than joining a game or inviting them to a game. Well, Xfire (and steam I've heard) has the same thing and they do it better, so they wasted time (which = money) on something pretty darn close to worthless.

It seems you want to resort to controlling the experience, rather than letting us choose the experience. Guess what? WE DON'T LIKE IT. You want us to bye the game? Release this IWNET and the game in a beta. Right now, I'm not planning on buying this game, PERIOD. I was going to buy it opening day for PC (probably pre-order soon) and later down the road buy the "Prestige Edition" for PS3. NOW, i"m not buying either one, so you're out $200... at least.

And that would bring me to my last point. "Prestige editions" for consoles and we get the fucking cardboard box? What the heck? We want NVGs every now and then, too. If they work as well as they look, they'll probably stink and I'll be glad I didn't buy them, but I like NVGs. I use them at work and have used them overseas. It's not just that, you didn't even OFFER IT for the PC. AND now, you have us paying $10 more than usual (up from $50 to $60) just for this IWNET match-making crap? c'mon, you're not cupid. You're screwing this stuff up almost as much as Treyarch did with the initial release of World @ War. It's a sorta fun game now, but still reeks of noobish game play (constant camping by some, constant run'n'gun with the fastest gun they can find) and the maps support that play. I long for the days of HUGE maps and no ranking up bullshit like we had with COD UO.
44Grim, aka GRIM|MWB out... until you fix this crap.

i think they have a lot of good ideas in this bill to make things more efficient. unfortunately for them, I think most of the plans they have are terrible for our economy and our citizens. we could use a 'national id card' to that would have all of your information on it (but i don't trust the government with this). i think we should definitely promote a wired network between all primary physician care places... we could do it similar to the 'Gore bill" in 1991 or so. on second thought, maybe not, i'd rather see a privatized company do all the work to get this done, then the contracts won't be completely terrible.

point i'm trying to make is: there are a few good ideas in this bill that they could put into our CURRENT system, which just happens to be best in the world. it would be like giving the steelers larry fitzgerald and Adrian peterson... make an already great thing even better... instead of trying to take away calvin johnson and kevin smith from the lions and telling them they have to compete with me as their running back.

come on you nutjob, she's just worried about us nutjobs... the 'right wing extremists' and former military personnel. or, anyone who stands up against the current administration. borders be damned, she's got some cleaning up of legal people to do. no dissent suddenly, and only robots for obama.

unfortunately yes. I think we could be in for a curve ball, though if Congress does NOT ratify the extra $2 billion, only due to the facts that their union buddies aren't the ones getting the money from this.

I don't know what they're getting at by putting "Prayer changes things" right next to him. Are they hinting that we should keep praying for him, hoping he'll change for the better or that suddenly racism no longer exists.

well, it'd work better than what we have now and paying an extra 1/3 on the things that we buy. it's 22% "inclusive" but about 29% exclusive. that's just slightly ridiculous in my opinion. either way, a new tax structure is only going to benefit the country if people with common sense run the new tax code. it won't matter what tax code we change to if the same clowns are in office.

It's no more a valid point to drilling by saying "We won't see results for 10 years". OK, so had we started 10 years ago, we'll have oil. suppose we start today, in 10 years we'll see results. in 10 years we can't look back and say "if we'd started this 10 years ago, we'd have oil" if we do this.

"I think we would have very few votes"
and that's bad why????

Let's mix the fair tax and the flat tax.

1% FLAT income tax rate with no deductions, no prebates, not a thing. every check you get they take out 1% for federal taxes.
in addition, they cut the 'sales tax' by about 2/3. 10% eclusive instead of 29% exclusive (~22% inclusive).
3% on used items, 1% on internet sales.

what did i tell you? people are getting dumber, and they are getting lazier. they don't even come up with their own opinions even more. ah, the media says this, it must be true... down with republicans! beat the dead horse!

About the Nasa/black hole story:

Nasa has found a monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun feeding off gas, dust and stars at the centre of a galaxy 50 million light-years away.

So, if it's 50 million light-years away, it might have already gone dormant and we'd not know for 50 million more years? OR, this whole 'million light years" away is slightly exaggerated.