"-Every class has two suggested "builds". What did I say before about telling us how to play? Honestly, at least leave WHO we play up to us. Similarly, each class has a "role". Not that they are customizable or anything. Nope, it's just like "Do you want a DD or a tank?" all over again."
Of course, if you added a race and starting gear to a 4e "build" what do you get? Oh, yeah, we called them "Starting Packages" in 3e except they were seen as a boon to new players and had a lot less vitriol spewed at them...
On the treasure parcel thing, the entries for a group aren't what should be handed out per encounter (which GP made it sound like), the intent is that for a group of 5 (standard group size) to be roughly on track w.r.t. wealth, that is the total wealth that should be handed out across a given level, and not necessarily everything should have treasure on it (i.e. parcel 5 [generally the largest straight cash parcel] is not appropriate for, say, a goblin raiding party to have [unless you're catching them on return from a very successful raid]).
Yeah, being "trained" is equivalent to 10 character levels worth of skill modifier, and skill focus (which requires the skill be trained) is worth another 6. So a level 2 character trained in a skill with skill focus (and presuming an equal ability modifier) has the same modifier as an untrained level 18 character. More realistically, unless that ability score is a "dump stat" for the untrained higher-level character, it'll be closer to 14 when they meet parity (do to ability score increases from character level).
4e doesn't have "aggro" whatsoever. The closest thing it does have are some abilities that say "if you attack someone other than me, you'll pay for it". It doesn't force them to attack you, they can choose to either take the penalty for attacking someone else, or perform a non-attack action of some kind.
Twiddling your thumbs until it wears off is fine, taking the opportunity to drink a healing potion is fine, teleporting, flying, or running away is fine. None of those would provide any kind of penalty.
Honestly the most aggro-like thing I have ever seen in D&D was in 3.5 -- the Knight from PHB2.
Nail on the head. Women in male-dominated fields are every bit as good as the guys (excepting affirmative action cases where requirements are made more lax for them, but that is a particular stab against affirmative action rather than women or any minority in any field). What you see as a trend is tendency to go into those fields in the first place.
It's not a matter of whether or not group A or B is better at field C, but rather whether more people of equal value come from group A or B into field C.
Or there could be some degree of general bias that is statristically significant across the population.
Example, at the college I attended, the engineering school had a male:female ratio of something like 8:1, whereas the nursing school was closer to 1:5. I can say from watching the school very, very closely after hearing the whole "women are driven away from tech" speech that the female students we did get were far more likely to actually graduate, and seemed to be generally treated like one of the guys (unless someone was asking them out, or they were flirting themselves [I think jumping on someone's back and hanging from around their neck is pretty clearly flirting and not a misinterpreted signal, given that both parties were sober at the time]). Generally, the nursing students complained more of that kind of thing.
The vast majority settled because the defendants were guilty? I would be shocked if no small number of them settled because the settlement is cheaper than paying for their defense, which would likely come out of pocket, even if they were not found to be liable for copyright infringement. After all, the RIAA works hard to be a PITA when someone countersues for lawyer's fees.
In Python, your module could always import the future namespace (which contains "in development" features of the language) into the current global context, then as long as none of your other identifiers become keywords in future versions of Python, it should work fine from the version of Python that first introduced the features you are using forward.
Need code that you KNOW has no errors aside from logic errors on the part of the programmer? Use Ada.
That's really where Ada fits. You can do very little wrong without the compiler screaming at you and then failing to compile. Like as in, things that cause C "warnings" cause Ada to fail compilation until you fix it.
Need to rapidly produce major components, and easily wrap C for the lower level, more performance intensive stuff? Use Python.
No, really. That seems to be Python's main niche. It's a great language for writing large blocks of program logic very quickly, is poor at low-level stuff, but can trivially wrap C to do the things it is very poor at.
One of you is using the psychological definition of a pedophile, the other is using the "anyone convicted of any sex-related offense regarding a minor in any way" definition of a pedophile.
If you meet a girl at a party who claims to be 18 but is really 15 (see Traci Lords) and go off for some "private" fun with her, then you are one but not the other.
The Bill of Rights doesn't give a list of rights you posess, it gives a list of rights that the government cannot take away under any circumstances.
It's also stated in the constitution that any power not explicitly given to the federal government belongs to the states or the people.
Good point there. I've wondered why people who use the "cults brainwash people, religions don't" line of argument don't consider it. Essentially, you have a growth pattern where you go from a "founding" state to a "self-sustaining" state.
In the "founding" state, the bulk of your members are adult converts, as you lack a sufficient base of believers to maintain your numbers otherwise. Values are well apart from mainstream and thus need to be deeply impressed on members, with a persistent state of guilt "you are all sinners and always will be sinners and will be punished eternally unless you do X" being one of the more common routes to both impress the values of the group on the members and make the members stay adherent.
Eventually, such an organization get enough members that it will be in continued growth with only current members + their children. At this point, most groups relax their rules somewhat to make it easier to keep numbers up, but most also become "softer" on converts, that is that there is less hellfire involved with the concept of leaving, techniques used to gain and hold converts are softened and so on, and it becomes what most everyone here will accept as a "religion" as opposed to a "cult".
There also tends to be, after enough time passes, a disconnect between the "founding" beliefs and the current beliefs sufficient that apologetics become necessary to explain why the rules as written either are inconsistent or don't apply in practice.
I think you are misunderstanding the reason for the FDA, or at least why it is SUPPOSED to exist. It's supposed to *prevent* things like thalidomide being prescribed to pregnant women and other cases where a drug is very unsafe *BEFORE* there are widespread fatalities or other health issues caused by them.
Unfortunately, things like the recent drug recalls and the Stevia plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia) bullshit demonstrate that the FDA isn't properly doing it's job, that is that it as a regulatory body is too much in bed with the very companies it is meant to regulate.
If you are wondering about the case of Stevia, currently in the US it can be sold as an herbal supplement in any quantity to anyone for any reason and is deemed to be perfectly safe to do so. So long as you make no mention of it having a flavor (it's naturally very, very sweet and was used in place of sugar in the places where it is native for a very, very long time). The moment you mention it has a flavor, it becomes an unsafe food additive and you have to be fined and your stock confiscated and burned. This of course, has nothing to do with manufacturers of certain other noncaloric sweeteners that might not want to deal with an alternative.
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I don't know, I travel 50 miles of interstate each way to get to and from work,leaving home at 5AM and getting back at ~5:30 PM.
I used to run Miranda. It's really nice after you get done tweaking it and adding plugins until you have it the way you want it. Running pidgin currently because it's better than miranda from a fresh install (lost a drive and reinstalled windows on my gaming box).
Never had any problems with Pidgin, other than having it "forget" to display a tray icon when minimized to tray one startup.
...and if you are sufficiently eccentric, I bleed a bit in your vehicle, and then turn up missing without a trace, you have de facto murdered me? It's not a matter of "defending a murderer", but rather one of "being an unlikeable nutjob does not negate reasonable doubt".
Except that small amounts of blood don't really prove very much, unless the circumstances make it impossible for it to be there otherwise. So unless the car is newer than any reason for the victim to be in a car belonging to the accused, there would need to be evidence of enough blood to suggest foul play, rather than just, say, nursing a cut.
Hmm, if they're POWs they get rights from the Geneva Convention, if their prisoners they get Constitutional rights. Bush essentially claimed that they were neither, they were "enemy combatants" that are not "prisoners of war" as typically they aren't in uniform. That way, they get no rights, not even to know why they are being held.
I could understand this to an extent, perhaps as a XX years (something smallish) or life of artist, whichever comes later. IOW, such that in event of the creators death his estate/heirs hold control of his works for a short time, but not for another century.
You know what's funny?
Generally the first thing you should write in a language once you have a running compiler for it is a compiler for the language itself.
This sounds bizarre to some people, but it leads to a lot of interesting tricks, where you can do things like optimize the compiler, compile it with itself twice and have an optimizing compiler that itself has been optimized in the same manner. If you write the compiler to be modular, you can swap out the code generation component, and compile it with the new one to make a cross compiler, then compile it with that to make a native code compiler for the new platform. You can also have things that the compiler simply "knows" because a previous version of it was compiled to know, such as having the compiler source emit '\"' when encountering the \" special character. Think about that one for a bit.
And then you were either in the top 3% income-wise, will be paying it off for more than a decade, or filed bankruptcy because it's highly unlikely you had a 6 digit amount saved for medical expenses just on hand.
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"-Every class has two suggested "builds". What did I say before about telling us how to play? Honestly, at least leave WHO we play up to us. Similarly, each class has a "role". Not that they are customizable or anything. Nope, it's just like "Do you want a DD or a tank?" all over again."
Of course, if you added a race and starting gear to a 4e "build" what do you get? Oh, yeah, we called them "Starting Packages" in 3e except they were seen as a boon to new players and had a lot less vitriol spewed at them...
On the treasure parcel thing, the entries for a group aren't what should be handed out per encounter (which GP made it sound like), the intent is that for a group of 5 (standard group size) to be roughly on track w.r.t. wealth, that is the total wealth that should be handed out across a given level, and not necessarily everything should have treasure on it (i.e. parcel 5 [generally the largest straight cash parcel] is not appropriate for, say, a goblin raiding party to have [unless you're catching them on return from a very successful raid]).
Yeah, being "trained" is equivalent to 10 character levels worth of skill modifier, and skill focus (which requires the skill be trained) is worth another 6. So a level 2 character trained in a skill with skill focus (and presuming an equal ability modifier) has the same modifier as an untrained level 18 character. More realistically, unless that ability score is a "dump stat" for the untrained higher-level character, it'll be closer to 14 when they meet parity (do to ability score increases from character level).
4e doesn't have "aggro" whatsoever. The closest thing it does have are some abilities that say "if you attack someone other than me, you'll pay for it". It doesn't force them to attack you, they can choose to either take the penalty for attacking someone else, or perform a non-attack action of some kind.
Twiddling your thumbs until it wears off is fine, taking the opportunity to drink a healing potion is fine, teleporting, flying, or running away is fine. None of those would provide any kind of penalty.
Honestly the most aggro-like thing I have ever seen in D&D was in 3.5 -- the Knight from PHB2.
Dang it, meant to include links:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-ZccfRrIo
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/My-Cat-lyrics-Jack-off-Jill/B113F6B161F88B2848256BFE000B228B
JOJ reference? Or am I just reading too much into it?
He can break my arm in seven places...
Nail on the head. Women in male-dominated fields are every bit as good as the guys (excepting affirmative action cases where requirements are made more lax for them, but that is a particular stab against affirmative action rather than women or any minority in any field). What you see as a trend is tendency to go into those fields in the first place.
It's not a matter of whether or not group A or B is better at field C, but rather whether more people of equal value come from group A or B into field C.
Or there could be some degree of general bias that is statristically significant across the population.
Example, at the college I attended, the engineering school had a male:female ratio of something like 8:1, whereas the nursing school was closer to 1:5. I can say from watching the school very, very closely after hearing the whole "women are driven away from tech" speech that the female students we did get were far more likely to actually graduate, and seemed to be generally treated like one of the guys (unless someone was asking them out, or they were flirting themselves [I think jumping on someone's back and hanging from around their neck is pretty clearly flirting and not a misinterpreted signal, given that both parties were sober at the time]). Generally, the nursing students complained more of that kind of thing.
The vast majority settled because the defendants were guilty? I would be shocked if no small number of them settled because the settlement is cheaper than paying for their defense, which would likely come out of pocket, even if they were not found to be liable for copyright infringement. After all, the RIAA works hard to be a PITA when someone countersues for lawyer's fees.
In Python, your module could always import the future namespace (which contains "in development" features of the language) into the current global context, then as long as none of your other identifiers become keywords in future versions of Python, it should work fine from the version of Python that first introduced the features you are using forward.
Need code that you KNOW has no errors aside from logic errors on the part of the programmer? Use Ada. That's really where Ada fits. You can do very little wrong without the compiler screaming at you and then failing to compile. Like as in, things that cause C "warnings" cause Ada to fail compilation until you fix it. Need to rapidly produce major components, and easily wrap C for the lower level, more performance intensive stuff? Use Python. No, really. That seems to be Python's main niche. It's a great language for writing large blocks of program logic very quickly, is poor at low-level stuff, but can trivially wrap C to do the things it is very poor at.
One of you is using the psychological definition of a pedophile, the other is using the "anyone convicted of any sex-related offense regarding a minor in any way" definition of a pedophile. If you meet a girl at a party who claims to be 18 but is really 15 (see Traci Lords) and go off for some "private" fun with her, then you are one but not the other.
The Bill of Rights doesn't give a list of rights you posess, it gives a list of rights that the government cannot take away under any circumstances. It's also stated in the constitution that any power not explicitly given to the federal government belongs to the states or the people.
Good point there. I've wondered why people who use the "cults brainwash people, religions don't" line of argument don't consider it. Essentially, you have a growth pattern where you go from a "founding" state to a "self-sustaining" state. In the "founding" state, the bulk of your members are adult converts, as you lack a sufficient base of believers to maintain your numbers otherwise. Values are well apart from mainstream and thus need to be deeply impressed on members, with a persistent state of guilt "you are all sinners and always will be sinners and will be punished eternally unless you do X" being one of the more common routes to both impress the values of the group on the members and make the members stay adherent. Eventually, such an organization get enough members that it will be in continued growth with only current members + their children. At this point, most groups relax their rules somewhat to make it easier to keep numbers up, but most also become "softer" on converts, that is that there is less hellfire involved with the concept of leaving, techniques used to gain and hold converts are softened and so on, and it becomes what most everyone here will accept as a "religion" as opposed to a "cult". There also tends to be, after enough time passes, a disconnect between the "founding" beliefs and the current beliefs sufficient that apologetics become necessary to explain why the rules as written either are inconsistent or don't apply in practice.
I think you are misunderstanding the reason for the FDA, or at least why it is SUPPOSED to exist. It's supposed to *prevent* things like thalidomide being prescribed to pregnant women and other cases where a drug is very unsafe *BEFORE* there are widespread fatalities or other health issues caused by them. Unfortunately, things like the recent drug recalls and the Stevia plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia) bullshit demonstrate that the FDA isn't properly doing it's job, that is that it as a regulatory body is too much in bed with the very companies it is meant to regulate. If you are wondering about the case of Stevia, currently in the US it can be sold as an herbal supplement in any quantity to anyone for any reason and is deemed to be perfectly safe to do so. So long as you make no mention of it having a flavor (it's naturally very, very sweet and was used in place of sugar in the places where it is native for a very, very long time). The moment you mention it has a flavor, it becomes an unsafe food additive and you have to be fined and your stock confiscated and burned. This of course, has nothing to do with manufacturers of certain other noncaloric sweeteners that might not want to deal with an alternative.
I don't know, I travel 50 miles of interstate each way to get to and from work,leaving home at 5AM and getting back at ~5:30 PM.
You mean like being made to register as a sex offender, immediately causing everyone who hears such to assume you are a pedophile and/or rapist?
Presuming late teens-early 20s is their target audience, 16-24 years.
I used to run Miranda. It's really nice after you get done tweaking it and adding plugins until you have it the way you want it. Running pidgin currently because it's better than miranda from a fresh install (lost a drive and reinstalled windows on my gaming box). Never had any problems with Pidgin, other than having it "forget" to display a tray icon when minimized to tray one startup.
...and if you are sufficiently eccentric, I bleed a bit in your vehicle, and then turn up missing without a trace, you have de facto murdered me? It's not a matter of "defending a murderer", but rather one of "being an unlikeable nutjob does not negate reasonable doubt".
Except that small amounts of blood don't really prove very much, unless the circumstances make it impossible for it to be there otherwise. So unless the car is newer than any reason for the victim to be in a car belonging to the accused, there would need to be evidence of enough blood to suggest foul play, rather than just, say, nursing a cut.
Hmm, if they're POWs they get rights from the Geneva Convention, if their prisoners they get Constitutional rights. Bush essentially claimed that they were neither, they were "enemy combatants" that are not "prisoners of war" as typically they aren't in uniform. That way, they get no rights, not even to know why they are being held.
I could understand this to an extent, perhaps as a XX years (something smallish) or life of artist, whichever comes later. IOW, such that in event of the creators death his estate/heirs hold control of his works for a short time, but not for another century.
You know what's funny? Generally the first thing you should write in a language once you have a running compiler for it is a compiler for the language itself. This sounds bizarre to some people, but it leads to a lot of interesting tricks, where you can do things like optimize the compiler, compile it with itself twice and have an optimizing compiler that itself has been optimized in the same manner. If you write the compiler to be modular, you can swap out the code generation component, and compile it with the new one to make a cross compiler, then compile it with that to make a native code compiler for the new platform. You can also have things that the compiler simply "knows" because a previous version of it was compiled to know, such as having the compiler source emit '\"' when encountering the \" special character. Think about that one for a bit.
And then you were either in the top 3% income-wise, will be paying it off for more than a decade, or filed bankruptcy because it's highly unlikely you had a 6 digit amount saved for medical expenses just on hand.