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There's truth to this, but I'd also add that in my experience of living and working around the world, I've yet to find a culture that fetishises power and money as much as the US does (esp. that weird undercurrent of "if you're poor, that's a moral judgement on you as a human")

Oh god, don't even joke about that shit...

??? What have you been eating / reading ???

Nah, we definitely didn't invent fire, you're good ;) But we definitely invented gravity.

Really? All this time and still I'm the first to make the lazy East Anglia - Neanderthals joke? This wouldn't happen on The Register :D

Came to say the same thing - what the article describes as "western" codes as "american" to this brit. Just within europe there'd be a very wide variation of norms, but many would regard the example of "thanks, I worked hard for it" as odd, perhaps even over-prideful. (And judging by earlier...

Use to live nearby, and visited many time - wholeheartedly seconded!

OK, looks like we're back! Loaded with no issues or noticable delay this morning - happy Friday from SG :)

Relieved to find this post (while on a VPN, obviously!) Had originally thought Ars was just down over the weekend, but experimented with VPN yesterday, and realised it was more local. Had assumed some innocuous article had been POFMAd (hey, it happens to Bloomberg, too), but thanks for the...

Seconded by another long term BHP listener!

According to the gameplay video, yes!! :)

Like a lot of ppl on here it seems, started with Civ 2. Have loved every version since then, and (for me) have incorporated the game changes each time to the point where $LATEST_VERSION is the one I play. I love VI, and am excited about VII. We've had big gameplay changes before, and (so far)...

it definitely begins with a 'C', but that's not the word I was thinking of.

Underrated comment.

Yup, did exactly the same (and got all my data deleted by Fitbit*) and am very happy I moved - wish I'd done it earlier. *At least, I completed the procedure in order to have my data deleted, who knows what actually happened on their servers...

Or indeed metres? ;)

Same same. 5 was great, and I have been playing 6 since it became current version. Have played since 2, and have loved them all. Resigned myself to shrugging my shoulders at "6 IS DOGSH!T" persistence - it's up there with "Lars is a sh!t drummer" as a tiresome negative meme... YMMV, of course.

Exactly the memory this lovely wash of DOS nostalgia brought back for me! Ending up with multiple versions of the 2 files, and writing a little script to select between them, depending which game you were trying to get running. (Pretty sure that was DOS5, guided by the Norton Book, but +/- 1 is...

Despite multiple months visiting/working in US, the typical portion size over there staggers me. Yes, some will take part home as leftovers, but to me it feels like part of the normalisation of "massive portion = normal portion". Anecdotally, at least, despite having broadly similar diets...

Came here looking for this response, was not disappointed. (Also, pleasing not to see it on Cisco's list...)