"Where can I get a direct brain to web interface ?" It's an upgrade from the basic package--Blob-O-Lunnger, feding tube, waste removal, drool cup and a 1 year supply of liquid gruel. "so folks who might not have a prostitution ring or rob and pillage are able to do so through their computer without fear." True. I'm really not worried that 'Joe from accounting' is going to go out and try to become Super Pimp after playing the Sims. I'm more concerned about young people who are growing up on a steady diet of increasingly realistic violent roleplaying. There are too many factors involved perhaps to single out one innovation such as games but... For some reason, in the days of the little red schoolhouse with ready access to guns and presumably putting up with bullies as well, kids didn't seem to conclude that the solution was shooting up the place. The question is are games like GTA merely a "healthy outlet" for kids, or are we breeding hordes of the living brain dead whose solution to the homeless will be setting them on fire? At any rate, I've got dibs on Vicky for my stable of virtual hookers--gotta keep this Poser related :-)

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken