Codemasters didn't "make" Operation Flashpoint, Bohemia Interactive did. BI has developed the entire series. Codemasters published OFP, they made the box and the manual.

Thanks for the sanity check. Globalization doesn't just affect people that work on assembly lines.

Now that the quality of care is becoming on par, and often better than that in the US, I think it's only a matter of time before the big daddy of medical care in the US, insurance, starts moving towards cost cutting via treatment overseas. A number of insurance companies in Europe are already doing this, and NHS in the UK has a pilot voucher program going for overseas care... Only a matter of time.

You're required to make sure that your car is roadworthy, and can be fined if it's not (Oklahoma did away with inspections not too long ago).

Saves a lot of bureaucratic overhead, and allows people to drive older cars when there is no alternative (like cheap public transportation, in Europe I fully believe that it's either cheap or efficient, not both, sometimes neither).

Case in point, I've got a 1988 Fiat Panda that's registered in Germany. I am paying a massive amount of money because it doesn't have a catalytic converter, and therefore is a very naughty high polluting vehicle. Now I also happen to have an SLK with a 5.5L evil beast of an engine in it. Apparently, the government believes that the little 750cc engine will do more damage than the environment than the SLK. There are even places that I can't drive the Panda because it is too dirty. What really boggles the mind though, is that the decision on how much your car pollutes is based off of a sample per m3 of exhaust, doesn't have anything to do with the volume of pollutants that your car produces over a period of time...

Yea, I think this would be great for the US! Think about all the jobs it would create, and the best part, seeing all the poor people scramble to pay for $500 parts that they don't really need to be safe, but are required to pass inspection!

I think I'll pass on that one.

Does that mean that cars are far more dangerous than guns?

Not when they're blowing up metros, storming embassies, shooting film directors, blowing up trains...
Yea, it's stupid. On the other hand, if a group of Argentine paratroopers decided to go for a stroll through downtown Stanley dressed in their military clothes and making comments about where the safest place in the town might be, I would have to say that seems pretty stupid to me, and they would probably get some sort of attention.

seriously now, if you were sitting out in front of a federal building and some redneck dressed in bdus parks a moving van in front, you wouldn't be the slightest bit worried? Would you rather grandma gets into the metro car with an Indian in a suit, or the 20 stone Nigerians decked out big poofy jackets? This family was treated very badly, but they would have to be really really oblivious to dress up like the people that we see on our tvs every night yelling death to america, make comments about the safest place to sit in a plane, and not realize that people might get a bit nervous. Yea, we tend to profile. It's our brain trying to warn us that patterns are being matched and we need to take notice. AirTran was completely worthless here. They just made my airline selection process that much easier.

not to nit pick, but Kavaja wasn't an anglo saxon. His last name means coffee in just about every slavic language.

I think that the real reason can be summed up in a single word "money". Some people leave, usually just planning on doing so for a couple of years to save up, and then coming back and buying a flat. I'm in Pecs once a week, and I've got to say that the guys are quite on the ball as far as tech skills go. They don't want to leave because they have families, and the cost of living isn't nuts like in Budapest, and they generally live a good life. On a side note, I know quite a few Finns in Prague.....