Do you ever talk to anyone on the internet about movies (or drugs, but I figure movies is more likely), without first getting incontrovertible proof of their age? If not, how can you know for certain that noone involved in conversation was an 8 year old girl?
In my home state, it's actually specifically legal to claim the corpse of an animal you hit in a motor vehicle. It seems strange to people from elsewhere, but when you see animals that are reasonable to hunt for food come down onto the roads with some frequency (*especially* deer) it seems less crazy. We've also got a lot of hunters, to the point that "first day of deer season" might as well be a state holiday, most of which actually butcher and eat their deer, so there's no lack of knowledge there either.
As an aside, deer jerky is really good, much better than beef jerky.
So, from your point of view, what differentiates a "cult" is negative consequences for leaving?
Doesn't that mean that Christianity *was* a cult for a very, very long time, and only ceased being a cult when they were large enough that general social pressure combined with indoctrination at a young age were enough to maintain their numbers?
Or they could simply reduce the degree of tax-exemption severely, like for example make them exempt only to property taxes, and even then only to property taxes on land used primarily for religious services/worship. Or something similar. More or less to say that if you want tax-free land as a religion then you'd best be putting some kind of church/temple/mosque/whatever on it, and it had best be used for your services/worship more than anything else.
So, if they'd called themselves "thetorrentbay" and not used the pirate ship logo, and not publicly told companies giving them take-down notices according to laws that don't apply in their country to shove off for more or less exactly that reason, then everything would be fine?
I tried to say "I'm not accusing <non-Republican> of <abhorrent act> — in fact, I think he didn't (so my mentioning it clearly isn't slander, as I make no claim this statement is true)! But I can't help but wonder... Why won't <non-Republican> deny <abhorrent act>?"
There's a certain irony to it though, as Glenn Beck uses precisely the same tactic with quite some frequency: "I'm not accusing of — in fact, I think he didn't (so my mentioning it clearly isn't slander, as I make no claim this statement is true)! But I can't help but wonder... Why won't deny ?"
There's a "collector's edition" of some kind that's midway between the base version and the "digital deluxe" edition apparently, which doesn't provide access to both pieces of launch day DLC.
This. Although I didn't even know that the NPC in question did that initially as I handed in my "deluxe" serial and got the content in question downloading right off the bat, and it had finished downloading and installed itself before I got remotely close to said NPC.
It is literally the NPC who tells you about the place in the DLC that tries to sell you the DLC. Somewhat silly, but the only alternative would be to simply remove him from camp entirely if you don't have the DLC installed.
Hey now, the cue cat was great. Not for it's *intended* uses, admittedly, but a PS/2 barcode scanner that was basically given out for free from Radio Shack had uses for certain. =)
On top of that, doesn't one of the Mage specializations get to use their Magic stat in place of strength for equipment requirements? Or am I thinking wrong (I think that's an Arcane Warrior thing, but I don't have them unlocked yet).
You should read the codex-stuff on Bards. They're under Rogue because their origin in the setting is as much as spies/assassins as anything. Still the Antivan nobles hire them, knowing full well that most of them are spies of some competing noble, as the Antivans love their music, and it makes the "Game" (basically Antivan politics, which they actually refer to as the Game in character) more interesting.
Yeah, and unless everyone was on exactly the same page (say on the phone, in Vent, or in the same room), that feature alone was the slayer of friendships. That and the Thieves stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. When I did BG2 MP, the guy in the group playing the lawful good cleric got somewhat annoyed at hearing the "pickpocket" voice bit for the two thieves (I was one of them) spammed like crazy, ending with "There's a shiny in your inventory, cleric. You'll like it. Oh, I also bought that shiny magic armor, except I somehow ended up with more money that we started with and the shopkeeper wants to kill us. You should run now."
Actually, following the general reasoning people have shown on here, if you had to buy the "deluxe" version to get the content and it was otherwise inaccessible, that would be fine? If you had to buy the "deluxe" version and then register the key online to download it (as an antipiracy measure), but it was completely inaccessible otherwise, that would also be fine? The problem emerges entirely because you can buy the regular version and then pay more afterward to purchase the "deluxe" content if you didn't pay for it to begin with?
Or is it because of how they phrased it on everything, where it sounds less like "you can buy the extra stuff that came with the "digital deluxe" version if you want it but didn't buy that version to being with" and more "Here's DLC you can buy, digital deluxe users can check in their serial and get it free"? I mean, that's more or less a matter of semantics.
It's the "digital deluxe" edition content, which you can purchase separately if you didn't pay out for said digital deluxe version outright.
The big piece of content that people are complaining about being "required" is a stash box for persistent storage, which I have and haven't ever really used, since I dump most of my unwanted consumables and "generic" armor on a vendor, though I'll probably use it for various no longer used magical doodads before the game is over.
Although I will admit the DLC companion is my favorite party member so far, I typically run Leilana, Alistair and Shale, with Alistair and Shale both set up like tanks.
Effectively the ideomotor effect tapped into via a dowsing rod (itself nothing more than a pole that you associate the effect with) more or less helping you tap into environmental clues that you are picking up on but are likely not consciously aware of (elsewise you'd simply point it out without "need" for a dowsing rod).
As for Randi's prize, didn't he put a restriction on who could apply for it nowadays, limiting it to persons who already have media attention?
Not even that, but it's entirely possible that making available who had an illegal wiretap might either expose persons who need to be known not to be in on "ongoing intelligence activities" or that acknowledgment that X had an illegal wiretap placed might be harmful if X is still under suspicion of something but is not aware of said suspicion.
Personally, I think someone with proper clearance ought to go through the data and clear whichever taps are not part of an ongoing intelligence activity and those and only those should be used for purposes of the legal actions. If there are no such taps remaining, then set a date by which some percentage of said taps will no longer be part of an ongoing intelligence activity and go from there.
For WV's sake, I can probably guess it's due to having a different mark of what a bad driver is. You learn very quickly how fast you can round a sharp turn on an untreated ice covered road with a cliff on one side and mountainside on the other, or else you don't drive very long. =)
It's probably a mix of FIMSA and public accountability/recordkeeping laws. Consider that one of the points made when Palin's Yahoo! email was "cracked" was that it was illegal for her to use that account for any kind of government business due to an accountability law in that state. Likely similar considerations are at the root of having a separate government cloud.
Could be worse, you pull the sex industry specific terms out and replace them with words specific to many other industries, especially extraction industries, and it remains just as true.
So, who owns the land they'll need to dig up every other week to run the new guy's lines, and why should those landholders *let* them dig it up at the drop of a hat to run another set of lines?
Or are we going to let the current line owners hold the lines, and let everyone else lease them at "what the market will bear"?
"I want to be your competitor, but to do so I need to lease access to your lines. What do you mean you won't deal with me, or will charge enough I can't be real competition?"
Isn't the minimization of government control/ownership of things in preference to private ownership, because "the free market will fix it" part of libertarianism?
Unfortunately, I can think of things where that simply can't work. Let me provide you an example -- let's say government gets out of the highway business altogether, and sell off all roads to interested individuals/corporations. Where I live, we're in a river valley in the Appalachian Mountains, and there are places where there is only one road going in or out (heck, there are two routes out of my hometown, but only because the single road goes in one end and out the other), and even general passage up and down the valley has places where the only ways through are one highway on each side of the river, the interstate, or owning a boat.
So let's say we've got an area where only three roads run the length of our river valley (actually the case where I am, two US Rts and an Interstate are the only roads that run the length of the valley, and in some places are the only roads that go that way, due to space constraints from living in a river valley surrounded on every side by mountains). I buy up a section of all three of those roads on one side of the nearest city of any size (let's also make said city the state capital as well, since I *am* thinking of a real place in the US), thus owning all roads going to/from that city from the east. Let's also throw in that said city is where most of the people in the smaller towns to the east are employed, and is home to most significant retail options in the area as well.
Now, I charge what the market will bear to enter that city from the east. What is being able to go to your job worth to you? What is being able to go to a retail establishment that's even remotely nearby and bigger than a Dollar General worth to you? What is being able to reach the courthouse worth to you?
I have a feeling that "what the market will bear" is pretty high in this case.
(If you were wondering exactly where I was thinking of, look at Charleston, WV and the sections of US60, US61, and I64 between Marmet and Kanawha City -- only roads going through.)
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Do you ever talk to anyone on the internet about movies (or drugs, but I figure movies is more likely), without first getting incontrovertible proof of their age? If not, how can you know for certain that noone involved in conversation was an 8 year old girl?
In my home state, it's actually specifically legal to claim the corpse of an animal you hit in a motor vehicle. It seems strange to people from elsewhere, but when you see animals that are reasonable to hunt for food come down onto the roads with some frequency (*especially* deer) it seems less crazy. We've also got a lot of hunters, to the point that "first day of deer season" might as well be a state holiday, most of which actually butcher and eat their deer, so there's no lack of knowledge there either.
As an aside, deer jerky is really good, much better than beef jerky.
So, from your point of view, what differentiates a "cult" is negative consequences for leaving?
Doesn't that mean that Christianity *was* a cult for a very, very long time, and only ceased being a cult when they were large enough that general social pressure combined with indoctrination at a young age were enough to maintain their numbers?
A cautionary tale: http://pixelscapes.com/anachronauts/anachronauts03.html
Or they could simply reduce the degree of tax-exemption severely, like for example make them exempt only to property taxes, and even then only to property taxes on land used primarily for religious services/worship. Or something similar. More or less to say that if you want tax-free land as a religion then you'd best be putting some kind of church/temple/mosque/whatever on it, and it had best be used for your services/worship more than anything else.
So, if they'd called themselves "thetorrentbay" and not used the pirate ship logo, and not publicly told companies giving them take-down notices according to laws that don't apply in their country to shove off for more or less exactly that reason, then everything would be fine?
Grah! /. removes >< even when set to text mode.
I tried to say "I'm not accusing <non-Republican> of <abhorrent act> — in fact, I think he didn't (so my mentioning it clearly isn't slander, as I make no claim this statement is true)! But I can't help but wonder ... Why won't <non-Republican> deny <abhorrent act>?"
There's a certain irony to it though, as Glenn Beck uses precisely the same tactic with quite some frequency: "I'm not accusing of — in fact, I think he didn't (so my mentioning it clearly isn't slander, as I make no claim this statement is true)! But I can't help but wonder ... Why won't deny ?"
There's a "collector's edition" of some kind that's midway between the base version and the "digital deluxe" edition apparently, which doesn't provide access to both pieces of launch day DLC.
This. Although I didn't even know that the NPC in question did that initially as I handed in my "deluxe" serial and got the content in question downloading right off the bat, and it had finished downloading and installed itself before I got remotely close to said NPC.
It is literally the NPC who tells you about the place in the DLC that tries to sell you the DLC. Somewhat silly, but the only alternative would be to simply remove him from camp entirely if you don't have the DLC installed.
Hey now, the cue cat was great. Not for it's *intended* uses, admittedly, but a PS/2 barcode scanner that was basically given out for free from Radio Shack had uses for certain. =)
On top of that, doesn't one of the Mage specializations get to use their Magic stat in place of strength for equipment requirements? Or am I thinking wrong (I think that's an Arcane Warrior thing, but I don't have them unlocked yet).
You should read the codex-stuff on Bards. They're under Rogue because their origin in the setting is as much as spies/assassins as anything. Still the Antivan nobles hire them, knowing full well that most of them are spies of some competing noble, as the Antivans love their music, and it makes the "Game" (basically Antivan politics, which they actually refer to as the Game in character) more interesting.
Yeah, and unless everyone was on exactly the same page (say on the phone, in Vent, or in the same room), that feature alone was the slayer of friendships. That and the Thieves stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. When I did BG2 MP, the guy in the group playing the lawful good cleric got somewhat annoyed at hearing the "pickpocket" voice bit for the two thieves (I was one of them) spammed like crazy, ending with "There's a shiny in your inventory, cleric. You'll like it. Oh, I also bought that shiny magic armor, except I somehow ended up with more money that we started with and the shopkeeper wants to kill us. You should run now."
Actually, following the general reasoning people have shown on here, if you had to buy the "deluxe" version to get the content and it was otherwise inaccessible, that would be fine? If you had to buy the "deluxe" version and then register the key online to download it (as an antipiracy measure), but it was completely inaccessible otherwise, that would also be fine? The problem emerges entirely because you can buy the regular version and then pay more afterward to purchase the "deluxe" content if you didn't pay for it to begin with?
Or is it because of how they phrased it on everything, where it sounds less like "you can buy the extra stuff that came with the "digital deluxe" version if you want it but didn't buy that version to being with" and more "Here's DLC you can buy, digital deluxe users can check in their serial and get it free"? I mean, that's more or less a matter of semantics.
It's the "digital deluxe" edition content, which you can purchase separately if you didn't pay out for said digital deluxe version outright.
The big piece of content that people are complaining about being "required" is a stash box for persistent storage, which I have and haven't ever really used, since I dump most of my unwanted consumables and "generic" armor on a vendor, though I'll probably use it for various no longer used magical doodads before the game is over.
Although I will admit the DLC companion is my favorite party member so far, I typically run Leilana, Alistair and Shale, with Alistair and Shale both set up like tanks.
Why are we insulting the intelligence of politician's children again. I mean it's not their fault whose family they were born into...
Effectively the ideomotor effect tapped into via a dowsing rod (itself nothing more than a pole that you associate the effect with) more or less helping you tap into environmental clues that you are picking up on but are likely not consciously aware of (elsewise you'd simply point it out without "need" for a dowsing rod).
As for Randi's prize, didn't he put a restriction on who could apply for it nowadays, limiting it to persons who already have media attention?
Not even that, but it's entirely possible that making available who had an illegal wiretap might either expose persons who need to be known not to be in on "ongoing intelligence activities" or that acknowledgment that X had an illegal wiretap placed might be harmful if X is still under suspicion of something but is not aware of said suspicion.
Personally, I think someone with proper clearance ought to go through the data and clear whichever taps are not part of an ongoing intelligence activity and those and only those should be used for purposes of the legal actions. If there are no such taps remaining, then set a date by which some percentage of said taps will no longer be part of an ongoing intelligence activity and go from there.
For WV's sake, I can probably guess it's due to having a different mark of what a bad driver is. You learn very quickly how fast you can round a sharp turn on an untreated ice covered road with a cliff on one side and mountainside on the other, or else you don't drive very long. =)
It's probably a mix of FIMSA and public accountability/recordkeeping laws. Consider that one of the points made when Palin's Yahoo! email was "cracked" was that it was illegal for her to use that account for any kind of government business due to an accountability law in that state. Likely similar considerations are at the root of having a separate government cloud.
Could be worse, you pull the sex industry specific terms out and replace them with words specific to many other industries, especially extraction industries, and it remains just as true.
So, who owns the land they'll need to dig up every other week to run the new guy's lines, and why should those landholders *let* them dig it up at the drop of a hat to run another set of lines?
Or are we going to let the current line owners hold the lines, and let everyone else lease them at "what the market will bear"?
"I want to be your competitor, but to do so I need to lease access to your lines. What do you mean you won't deal with me, or will charge enough I can't be real competition?"
You're missing something here.
Let's say Scholastic publishes a book. Scholastic's book goes up for sale on Google's new thing.
Scholastic is the publisher, what retailer is involved and why should they be paid anything?
Isn't the minimization of government control/ownership of things in preference to private ownership, because "the free market will fix it" part of libertarianism?
Unfortunately, I can think of things where that simply can't work. Let me provide you an example -- let's say government gets out of the highway business altogether, and sell off all roads to interested individuals/corporations. Where I live, we're in a river valley in the Appalachian Mountains, and there are places where there is only one road going in or out (heck, there are two routes out of my hometown, but only because the single road goes in one end and out the other), and even general passage up and down the valley has places where the only ways through are one highway on each side of the river, the interstate, or owning a boat.
So let's say we've got an area where only three roads run the length of our river valley (actually the case where I am, two US Rts and an Interstate are the only roads that run the length of the valley, and in some places are the only roads that go that way, due to space constraints from living in a river valley surrounded on every side by mountains). I buy up a section of all three of those roads on one side of the nearest city of any size (let's also make said city the state capital as well, since I *am* thinking of a real place in the US), thus owning all roads going to/from that city from the east. Let's also throw in that said city is where most of the people in the smaller towns to the east are employed, and is home to most significant retail options in the area as well.
Now, I charge what the market will bear to enter that city from the east. What is being able to go to your job worth to you? What is being able to go to a retail establishment that's even remotely nearby and bigger than a Dollar General worth to you? What is being able to reach the courthouse worth to you?
I have a feeling that "what the market will bear" is pretty high in this case.
(If you were wondering exactly where I was thinking of, look at Charleston, WV and the sections of US60, US61, and I64 between Marmet and Kanawha City -- only roads going through.)