Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (456438)	2/14/2009 12:02:09 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576658

>There's a researcher here in UC Irvine that is doing a study on World of Warcraft. Once again, you come up with an extreme example and think you have a point to make based on it. But you can't compare someone doing a study on WoW (which, might make sense in some context but is neither here nor there) to, say, urban planning research or disease research, both of which would certainly be great uses of stimulus money. >Let's fund more studies like this. Like you said, researchers need jobs too. And the work they're doing stimulates the economy, because ... uh ... video games is a multi-billion dollar industry and ... uh ... the research will help grow this industry, and ... uh ... I don't get why you can't understand the difference between spending that has a positive effect on society and spending that's wasteful. If you were running a business, would you just keep all of your money in the bank? -Z