Nah. When the Evangelicals take full power in the next ten years, no one will be allowed to swear, upon punishment of death. You'll still be able to blow ship up with guns, though.
I'm from Texas. I think this is already true here.
It's certainly troubling to me - I've heard many times that exit polls tend to favor Democrats by 2 or 3 percent because some people don't like to admit they voted Republican (a strange concept if you ask me - why would vote one way, then be ashamed of it 5 minutes later, and not willing to divulge that information
The opposite happens here in Texas. People come out saying they voted Republican when they actually voted Democrat. I guess it depends on where you are and who your friends are as to what you'll say you voted.
The simple fact is: Where there is enough demand, there will also be enough supply. If you want to control illegal drugs, the demand is what you really need to be looking at.
If you want to control illegal drugs, legalize them.
I was fine with your first part, but the second pharagraph...
This mantra is just one of many aspects of a culture that refuses to see the conscientious refusal to vote as valid. It ultimately reinforces the system and blinds us to change. The "Vote or die," "I don't care who you vote for, just vote," etc., slogans that we hear repeated are, plain and simple, pro-government.
If you want to protest by not voting, you should go vote and not pick anyone. Turn in a blank ballot.
> don't bitch about the president during the next 4 years
Corollary 1: If they one you vote for loses, bitch continually for the next four years.
Are you sure it is 4 years? I still hear complaining... Let us see for just the elections I have voted in:
Bush Sr: Whose family values? The rich's family values... Clinton 1st term: Scandal! You lost money in real-estate. Clinton 2nd term: Men have affairs Shrub: War (no WMD, no Terrorist links to 9/11, forged documents, etc.) taken a ton of vacations
with the Dems being disingenuous (this favors neither Dems nor Republicans--only incumbents).
Correction, it favors the incumbents of whatever party did the gerrymandering. Several Texas incumbent Democrats are getting the boot thanks to Mr. unethical Delay.
why does a song talking about littering and jail come to mind....
And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
actually many of the WW products are sold at Drivethrurpg.
Currently over 343 products from WW are sold there. Here is a more direct link to their products. link
You are correct. I can think of several RPGs that have disappeared over the years. It would be nice if I could legally get them some where without having to bid for it on an auction site.
The first post seems like typical players and the reply post seems like a typical killer DM.
What kind of DM throws a Blue Screen of Death at a party except the sadistic killer DM type? I can just imagine the screams of frustration from the players. Even if the players escape the BSOD, they still might have lost what they were working on! All their goals dashed in one BSOD encounter.
They need to switch Role Playing games and go to one that is more solid where a surprise BSOD won't happen.
I sort of agree, but my limit is when there is a legal alternative to downloading from a P2P network.
WotC is doing more than most of the Record Industry or MPAA. They are actually working with e-distributors to release a product. The least we can do as consumers is respect the designer's method of releasing a product. Either buy a hardcopy or buy the PDF, but do not download the PDF from a P2P network.
Here's a link to a comment made on Enworld by Sigil below is a cut&paste of the comment. It should be noted that I disagree with his views on DRM and the price of Frostburn. I am fine with both. I just think his comment sums up the pluses of PDFs in a table top RPG environment.
Sigil: Speaking from my POV as an avid PDF consumer (though since I am also a PDF publisher, you may wish to take it with a grain of salt; I am trying as best I can not to bring publisher bias into the equation, but in the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you I write PDFs too - though I should also tell you that my policies as a PDF publisher are essentially governed by, "if I were buying this product, what would I want?"). Quote: Originally Posted by rowport Hey, there! I am glad that you posted about this, because I am curious of the opinion of a true pdf fan: do you think that pricing the electronic document the same as the MSRP for the hardback volume is reasonable? In two words, "{expletive edited for Eric's Grandma}, NO!"
Traditional (non-DRMed) PDFs have the following advantages over print products (in no particular order): 1 - They don't take up shelf space - when you have a collection of over 500 PDFs, as I do (at least, I'm pretty sure it's approaching 500) you appreciate not having to find room for 500 books.
2 - "Take only the parts you want" - As an extension of the above, you need only print small sections of the PDF that are relevant to you instead of lugging the whole thing around to your games. Alternatively, a DM can print only those portions of a PDF he wants his players to see.
3 - Cut and Paste - Again, related to "take the parts you want" but very nice for quickly pulling material from a dozen sources to create a customized "sourcebook" for your PC.
4 - Searchability - The "search" feature of a PDF lets you almost instantly find that nasty little rule to stump (or be) a rules-lawyer.
5 - Backups - PDFs are easier - and much cheaper - to "back up" in case of catastrophe than traditional print items. In some cases (such as RPGNow.com), you have the ability to send yourself re-download links of products you've already paid for in case of true catastrophe (e.g., the house burns down - at RPGNow.com, you can simply use a few clicks to regenerate your PDF collection for free).
6 - Cost - In theory, part of paying for a print product includes the cost of printing, binding, warehousing, and distributing - including the cost of materials (paper, ink, & glue); a PDF needs not include these costs (IIRC, a good rule of thumb is that publishers get around 25% of the MSRP for each book and that's BEFORE they have to account for printing costs). Of course, Economics 101 tells you that the price of a good has NOTHING to do with the cost of production and everything to do with how much people are willing to pay (soft drinks, for example, have HUGE profit margins for this very reason).
7 - Instant, Free Updates - Some PDF vendors update their products for free... again, because the cost of distribution, et al, is negligible... don't you wish you had gotten a free 3.5 PHB if you had bought the 3.0 PHB, for example?
It should be noted that DRMed PDFs often (not always) take away some of these advantages. In particular:
3 - Cut & Paste - Most Drivethrurpg PDFs limit your cut & paste ability to 10 cut/pastes in a 10-day period. This doesn't do away with the utility entirely, but does mitigate it considerably, as most people (a) don't want to be bothered rationing their cutting/pasting and (b) in my experience, want to cut lots of small sections rather than a few large ones.
5 - Backups - As has been discussed before, some of Adobe's limits (6 computers) can come into play; also, a computer without an internet connection (e.g., a laptop) can't be used at all to display things... not to mention the trouble with remembering
Personally I think this is in response to gmail. basically in a round-a-bout way they want you to store emails in hotmail because then they can use it like gmail. If they allow outlook to access hotmail, then you might actually clean your inbox more regularly.
I think they plan to use their free service to target more people with ads.
You know, it's ironic that everyone is saying to just move on and get past the circumstances surrounding Kerry's Purple Hearts and Silver Star, because according to the military, he earned them and deserved them, and yet the DNC is beating up on Bush even though he received an honorable discharge, in other words, according to the military, he did his job.
I find it highly tinfoilish, but I still would like to know...why were Bush's military records destroyed in 1996? Why does Bush have his driving records locked away? Why is Bush on anti-depressants? Why is Bush the only Texas Govenor to have his records locked away? Why is Bush Sr an ex-cia guy, the only ex-president requesting CIA reports? Why doesn't Bush Jr. talk with his father about these reports? Why didn't Bush Jr read his father's book before invading IRAQ since his father outlined all the problems we are currently facing there?
I know people say Bush is for family values, but whose family? The families of the soliders in IRAQ? Or the families of the rich? Which family does Bush's tax cuts help more in the long term? Who is going to pay the national debt? Is the company that is offsoring their workforce going to pay?
I think what's sad is politically active people who need robotic partisan uniformity. America's huge, diverse population has worked together for hundreds of years by finding compromise acceptable to the majority, even when that majority spanned many ideologies and parties.
oh the idealist, yall still exist? The United States' huge, diverse population has worked together for hundreds of years not by finding a compromise, but by a minority dominating the majority: White over the black, men over women, rich over poor, etc....
Furthermore, any study that doesn't compare the relative effects of: spending money on painting the walls red; spending the same money on alternative improvements (bigger cubicles, better chairs, quieter rooms, better lighting); spending the same money on raises... is garbage.
or an Ad. I don't know...I think I heard her plug her resume too much for me not to think she was selling something.
I sort of agree, but there is a problem. In order to have a better case you have to voice your charge to the offender. Basically if you do not say stop or voice an objection, you have a weaker case.
During the RNC for Bush Sr. in Houston the police attacked the protesters. My wife was there and she had some training for clinic defense against opperation rescue. Basically you have to let the abuser know they are hurting you for you to be able to press charges later. My wife let the cop know he was hurting her, but he still pounded her 3 times with a police stick.
My wife's case was the strongest but nothing came of it. Shelia Jackson Lee, who was on Houston's city council at the time, is the only one that stood up for the protesters. She is the only one that pressed for more inquiry. Some of the protesters were trampled on my horese. Even though there was footage of the beatings, it was impossible to figure out which cops where attacking whom. The reflective numbers on the riot armor didn't reflect. You have to have light for it to reflect. Some of the other more injured protesters were gay and didn't want to be outed.
What I am trying to say is...no matter what your political views are if you want change, you are going to have to stand up and take the hit. Change might not happen even then (like what happened to my wife) but it will if people continue.
We talk a lot on/., but few of us are willing to go to jail for our beliefs. Is wireless surfing outside a library important enough to you to take a hit?
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Nah. When the Evangelicals take full power in the next ten years, no one will be allowed to swear, upon punishment of death. You'll still be able to blow ship up with guns, though.
I'm from Texas. I think this is already true here.
It's certainly troubling to me - I've heard many times that exit polls tend to favor Democrats by 2 or 3 percent because some people don't like to admit they voted Republican (a strange concept if you ask me - why would vote one way, then be ashamed of it 5 minutes later, and not willing to divulge that information
The opposite happens here in Texas. People come out saying they voted Republican when they actually voted Democrat. I guess it depends on where you are and who your friends are as to what you'll say you voted.
The simple fact is: Where there is enough demand, there will also be enough supply. If you want to control illegal drugs, the demand is what you really need to be looking at.
If you want to control illegal drugs, legalize them.
I was fine with your first part, but the second pharagraph...
This mantra is just one of many aspects of a culture that refuses to see the conscientious refusal to vote as valid. It ultimately reinforces the system and blinds us to change. The "Vote or die," "I don't care who you vote for, just vote," etc., slogans that we hear repeated are, plain and simple, pro-government.
If you want to protest by not voting, you should go vote and not pick anyone. Turn in a blank ballot.
Not voting at all just means you don't matter.
> don't bitch about the president during the next 4 years
Corollary 1: If they one you vote for loses, bitch continually for the next four years.
Are you sure it is 4 years? I still hear complaining...
Let us see for just the elections I have voted in:
Bush Sr: Whose family values? The rich's family values...
Clinton 1st term: Scandal! You lost money in real-estate.
Clinton 2nd term: Men have affairs
Shrub: War (no WMD, no Terrorist links to 9/11, forged documents, etc.) taken a ton of vacations
with the Dems being disingenuous (this favors neither Dems nor Republicans--only incumbents).
Correction, it favors the incumbents of whatever party did the gerrymandering. Several Texas incumbent Democrats are getting the boot thanks to Mr. unethical Delay.
Vote Republican 2004, they may not follow antitrust and anti-monopoly laws, but at least they can pay attention to technicalities!
Definition of a LE society: enforce the laws that suit you.
I thought that was what images.google.com was for
Shared Geography: "He's from Texas! Not like them panty-waists from Taxachusetts."
Please exclude some of us Texans from your wrath.
Just like his father (before his retirement,) Shrub just visits Texas.
And, every day I see more Kerry&Edwards stickers in Houston, Texas.
On a side note, I think we'll be giving Tom Delay a retirement package. Richard Morrison is going to beat that crook.
why does a song talking about littering and jail come to mind....
And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
From Alice's Restaurant
I don't think you'll find the 1981 version here, but the basic rules are there...
they also have 1st and 2nd ed.
actually Drivethrurpg has a FAQ about how to transfer to PDAs and how to transfer to other pcs.
Adobe might have to get involved, but drivethrurpg gives the number to call to get this done.
actually many of the WW products are sold at Drivethrurpg.
Currently over 343 products from WW are sold there. Here is a more direct link to their products. link
You are correct. I can think of several RPGs that have disappeared over the years. It would be nice if I could legally get them some where without having to bid for it on an auction site.
The first post seems like typical players and the reply post seems like a typical killer DM.
What kind of DM throws a Blue Screen of Death at a party except the sadistic killer DM type? I can just imagine the screams of frustration from the players. Even if the players escape the BSOD, they still might have lost what they were working on! All their goals dashed in one BSOD encounter.
They need to switch Role Playing games and go to one that is more solid where a surprise BSOD won't happen.
I sort of agree, but my limit is when there is a legal alternative to downloading from a P2P network.
WotC is doing more than most of the Record Industry or MPAA. They are actually working with e-distributors to release a product. The least we can do as consumers is respect the designer's method of releasing a product. Either buy a hardcopy or buy the PDF, but do not download the PDF from a P2P network.
Here's a link to a comment made on Enworld by Sigil
below is a cut&paste of the comment. It should be noted that I disagree with his views on DRM and the price of Frostburn. I am fine with both. I just think his comment sums up the pluses of PDFs in a table top RPG environment.
Sigil:
Speaking from my POV as an avid PDF consumer (though since I am also a PDF publisher, you may wish to take it with a grain of salt; I am trying as best I can not to bring publisher bias into the equation, but in the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you I write PDFs too - though I should also tell you that my policies as a PDF publisher are essentially governed by, "if I were buying this product, what would I want?").
Quote:
Originally Posted by rowport
Hey, there! I am glad that you posted about this, because I am curious of the opinion of a true pdf fan: do you think that pricing the electronic document the same as the MSRP for the hardback volume is reasonable?
In two words, "{expletive edited for Eric's Grandma}, NO!"
Traditional (non-DRMed) PDFs have the following advantages over print products (in no particular order):
1 - They don't take up shelf space - when you have a collection of over 500 PDFs, as I do (at least, I'm pretty sure it's approaching 500) you appreciate not having to find room for 500 books.
2 - "Take only the parts you want" - As an extension of the above, you need only print small sections of the PDF that are relevant to you instead of lugging the whole thing around to your games. Alternatively, a DM can print only those portions of a PDF he wants his players to see.
3 - Cut and Paste - Again, related to "take the parts you want" but very nice for quickly pulling material from a dozen sources to create a customized "sourcebook" for your PC.
4 - Searchability - The "search" feature of a PDF lets you almost instantly find that nasty little rule to stump (or be) a rules-lawyer.
5 - Backups - PDFs are easier - and much cheaper - to "back up" in case of catastrophe than traditional print items. In some cases (such as RPGNow.com), you have the ability to send yourself re-download links of products you've already paid for in case of true catastrophe (e.g., the house burns down - at RPGNow.com, you can simply use a few clicks to regenerate your PDF collection for free).
6 - Cost - In theory, part of paying for a print product includes the cost of printing, binding, warehousing, and distributing - including the cost of materials (paper, ink, & glue); a PDF needs not include these costs (IIRC, a good rule of thumb is that publishers get around 25% of the MSRP for each book and that's BEFORE they have to account for printing costs). Of course, Economics 101 tells you that the price of a good has NOTHING to do with the cost of production and everything to do with how much people are willing to pay (soft drinks, for example, have HUGE profit margins for this very reason).
7 - Instant, Free Updates - Some PDF vendors update their products for free... again, because the cost of distribution, et al, is negligible... don't you wish you had gotten a free 3.5 PHB if you had bought the 3.0 PHB, for example?
It should be noted that DRMed PDFs often (not always) take away some of these advantages. In particular:
3 - Cut & Paste - Most Drivethrurpg PDFs limit your cut & paste ability to 10 cut/pastes in a 10-day period. This doesn't do away with the utility entirely, but does mitigate it considerably, as most people (a) don't want to be bothered rationing their cutting/pasting and (b) in my experience, want to cut lots of small sections rather than a few large ones.
5 - Backups - As has been discussed before, some of Adobe's limits (6 computers) can come into play; also, a computer without an internet connection (e.g., a laptop) can't be used at all to display things... not to mention the trouble with remembering
I think what I'm actually going to do is buy the hardcover, and download the scan of the same book on my P2P network of choice!
:-)
Oh wait, that's what I already do.
obviously you didn't read where this was posted from...here you go:
Posted by Zonk on Monday September 27, @05:22PM
from the legal-pdfs-mean-designers-can-eat dept.
How is this different than yahoo?
Personally I think this is in response to gmail. basically in a round-a-bout way they want you to store emails in hotmail because then they can use it like gmail. If they allow outlook to access hotmail, then you might actually clean your inbox more regularly.
I think they plan to use their free service to target more people with ads.
1. NEVER attack a person or their character.
2. ALWAYS preface your opinions with "It is my opinion that..." or "I feel that...".
3. ALWAYS support claims of fact with evidence, and always quote that evidence accurately. Show your logic in clear steps.
4. ALWAYS attack the claims and the logical steps people make with more or contrary evidence.
Wow...are you suggesting we combine southern charm with Yankee fact?
hmmm...I guess the race for the white house is about whether you want a southern charmer as Prez or VP.
You know, it's ironic that everyone is saying to just move on and get past the circumstances surrounding Kerry's Purple Hearts and Silver Star, because according to the military, he earned them and deserved them, and yet the DNC is beating up on Bush even though he received an honorable discharge, in other words, according to the military, he did his job.
I find it highly tinfoilish, but I still would like to know...why were Bush's military records destroyed in 1996? Why does Bush have his driving records locked away? Why is Bush on anti-depressants? Why is Bush the only Texas Govenor to have his records locked away? Why is Bush Sr an ex-cia guy, the only ex-president requesting CIA reports? Why doesn't Bush Jr. talk with his father about these reports? Why didn't Bush Jr read his father's book before invading IRAQ since his father outlined all the problems we are currently facing there?
I know people say Bush is for family values, but whose family? The families of the soliders in IRAQ? Or the families of the rich? Which family does Bush's tax cuts help more in the long term? Who is going to pay the national debt? Is the company that is offsoring their workforce going to pay?
I think what's sad is politically active people who need robotic partisan uniformity. America's huge, diverse population has worked together for hundreds of years by finding compromise acceptable to the majority, even when that majority spanned many ideologies and parties.
oh the idealist, yall still exist? The United States' huge, diverse population has worked together for hundreds of years not by finding a compromise, but by a minority dominating the majority: White over the black, men over women, rich over poor, etc....
Furthermore, any study that doesn't compare the relative effects of: spending money on painting the walls red; spending the same money on alternative improvements (bigger cubicles, better chairs, quieter rooms, better lighting); spending the same money on raises... is garbage.
or an Ad. I don't know...I think I heard her plug her resume too much for me not to think she was selling something.
I sort of agree, but there is a problem. In order to have a better case you have to voice your charge to the offender. Basically if you do not say stop or voice an objection, you have a weaker case.
/., but few of us are willing to go to jail for our beliefs. Is wireless surfing outside a library important enough to you to take a hit?
During the RNC for Bush Sr. in Houston the police attacked the protesters. My wife was there and she had some training for clinic defense against opperation rescue. Basically you have to let the abuser know they are hurting you for you to be able to press charges later. My wife let the cop know he was hurting her, but he still pounded her 3 times with a police stick.
My wife's case was the strongest but nothing came of it. Shelia Jackson Lee, who was on Houston's city council at the time, is the only one that stood up for the protesters. She is the only one that pressed for more inquiry. Some of the protesters were trampled on my horese. Even though there was footage of the beatings, it was impossible to figure out which cops where attacking whom. The reflective numbers on the riot armor didn't reflect. You have to have light for it to reflect. Some of the other more injured protesters were gay and didn't want to be outed.
What I am trying to say is...no matter what your political views are if you want change, you are going to have to stand up and take the hit. Change might not happen even then (like what happened to my wife) but it will if people continue.
We talk a lot on
I'm sure my boss would like to see me spending my time running through the maze of the cube farm looking for cheese.
Well duh! Management typically gives away training books on the subject.
My favorite stat is that %25 of US citizens think New Mexico is not a state.
Just imagine if someone invaded New Mexico and 25% of America were upset that we were sending troops there.