As an aside...I've got a friend who's on the sex offender registry here in Michigan. He'd been accused of sexually abusing the child of a woman he'd thrown out of his house. (He'd been telling her to get a job and find another place to live for months...finally, he just threw her out. She turned around and filed charges. No medical evidence was offered, but it was still a better deal for him to take a plea bargain.)
I talked about my parents before in this/. article.
Basically if you get accused, fight any way you can because conviction rates are in the 90% across the country. Make the trail last as long as you can because Appeals are based on errors in the trail. Long trials=more errors. Remember it is going to cost tons of money.
There was no physical evidence linking my dad to the victim. My father was convicted and got 30 years for sexual assault even though the victim (3yr old) lived with a sexual offender (her brother 13yrs old.) The father of the victim was odd too because he would drive over to his divorced wife's apartment every wednesday just to bath the victim.
My dad will be 89 years old when he gets out. He was a lawyer. The trail and appeals cost him over 110 thousand, but those are small losses when compared to the life lost.
Parole for sex offenders in Texas doesn't happen unless you get it set at trial. My dad will be in there for the duration most likely.
Science is *just* as dogmatic as religion, and in fact, *is* a religion. Anything that seeks the Truth of how the universe works, and why, is "pure" religion. Just because Science does it objectively, does not negate the fact that one can also do it subjectively. There is knowledge outside the realm of Science that it will *never* know, but just because it can't know, doesn't imply that we can't know, and in fact I would argue, that we *can* know.
(outside of science) Please tell me what religion defines thermodynamics. At least science can change when proven wrong. Normal religions normally don't. I don't want to believe in a god that lies or changes the facts afterwards. If it is true now, it should have been true then. How many religions have embraced evolution? Very few here in Texas.
My pleasure is to make women happy. I'm glad I succeeded.
One of the best gaming groups I played in was run by a woman. In fact, I'd say most of my gaming before her was with guys only and were simple hack-n-slash. Co-ed gaming really opened up the Role Playing aspect. I've been sold on Role Playing since then. It makes the games so memorable.
I'm 32 and I've been playing since I was 9. Role Playing really opened up for me at 19. I feel like I've lived decades of romance and intrigue and yet feel like it was just yesterday that I started playing. It is a wonderful feeling if you get a good GM.
Sterling Keener MCSE, CCNP sckeener@yahoo.com
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The "rules" are guidelines like stabilisers on a kid's bike: once you get the hang of role playing you can take them off. In that sense there never was any need for second and thrid edition
I agree to a point. The other editions are needed, but to do exactly what you wish that they did. The later editions (3rd to be exact) make it easier to ignore the rules. I consider the later editions to just be standard practices.
Think of Linux, you could continue to use your slackware from the early 90s and develop your own apps. Or you can take the streamlined standards (hopefully) of the newer versions to make it easier to branch out with less work on the fundamental applications.
FYI for those that don't know: D&D 3ed is OGL (open gaming license) which was based on the GPL.
Now where is that battleaxe I need for the staff meeting?
Dude, you need a staff of power for a staff meeting or are you getting rid of dead wood?
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Did anyone's DM ever complain that there was no way it would all fit?
Most ignore it because it is difficult. Most fantasy games do get around this problem by extra-dimensional spaces such as bags of holding or a Portable Hole Full of Beer
The one problem you do run into in most paper & pen games is space. Weight is usually in some table, but dimensions of the item are usually rare. How to keep track of both is the hard part.
Obviously you've never had to face anything like this before. Before considering how high and mighty you'd be, remember that prosecution conviction rates are in the 90% across the states. If you ever get accused, win any way you can.
I've lost both of my parents to prison. My mother is guilty and my father is not. My father was actually a lawyer who believed in justice.
We do not have justice. We have law. There is a big difference. Don't trust that they'll play fair. Don't trust your lawyer to do a good job. Don't trust the jury to see the holes in the story.
I was about to respond to each reply, but to save time:
According to the US Department of Commerce "the average poverty threshold for a family of four in 2002 was $18,392 in annual income; compared with $14,348 for a family of three"
With that kind of income in relationship to their family size, food is a major factor in their budjet. If they are saving even 10% or one free month a year, that is a big savings in relationship to their income.
They might get clothes for their kids with that kind of money...
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there are many armchair scifi nuts...he is just one that captures the imagination of the many and can explain it to the masses.
I'm sure more eyes are going to be looking at this than 15 for 15 years.
Heck, even decent people are probably going to look at it to see how to improve or tweak.
Being smarter and acting smarter are two different things, however. Maybe humanity HAS been getting smarter, but everyone still acts like an idiot.
Remind me to link back to this in November.
The Western notion of God means the being is all-powerful, morally perfect, and the creator of the universe.
ah...you picked two out of three... omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient.
very wise
I typically get 44mpg with my Honda Hybrid, but if it is raining I usually get 39 to 40mpg.
My wife however gets 47 to 51mpg with the same car!
Maybe we need drivers ed just for Hybrids...
As an aside...I've got a friend who's on the sex offender registry here in Michigan. He'd been accused of sexually abusing the child of a woman he'd thrown out of his house. (He'd been telling her to get a job and find another place to live for months...finally, he just threw her out. She turned around and filed charges. No medical evidence was offered, but it was still a better deal for him to take a plea bargain.)
/. article.
I talked about my parents before in this
Basically if you get accused, fight any way you can because conviction rates are in the 90% across the country. Make the trail last as long as you can because Appeals are based on errors in the trail. Long trials=more errors. Remember it is going to cost tons of money.
There was no physical evidence linking my dad to the victim. My father was convicted and got 30 years for sexual assault even though the victim (3yr old) lived with a sexual offender (her brother 13yrs old.) The father of the victim was odd too because he would drive over to his divorced wife's apartment every wednesday just to bath the victim.
My dad will be 89 years old when he gets out. He was a lawyer. The trail and appeals cost him over 110 thousand, but those are small losses when compared to the life lost.
Parole for sex offenders in Texas doesn't happen unless you get it set at trial. My dad will be in there for the duration most likely.
Science is *just* as dogmatic as religion, and in fact, *is* a religion. Anything that seeks the Truth of how the universe works, and why, is "pure" religion. Just because Science does it objectively, does not negate the fact that one can also do it subjectively. There is knowledge outside the realm of Science that it will *never* know, but just because it can't know, doesn't imply that we can't know, and in fact I would argue, that we *can* know.
(outside of science) Please tell me what religion defines thermodynamics. At least science can change when proven wrong. Normal religions normally don't. I don't want to believe in a god that lies or changes the facts afterwards. If it is true now, it should have been true then. How many religions have embraced evolution? Very few here in Texas.
Thanks, I didn't know.
Ignorane of this is bliss, but it doesn't help me in spotting the racists in the world.
If you make a filter that blocks everything with the word "gay" in it, it's can't really be an accident when a gay rights site gets blocked.
Maybe they really hate pre-1900 literature. Shrub doesn't read ya know...He might not realize that there are other definitions for the word GAY.
It sounds great, but I'm still waiting on Duke Nukem. Let me know when they're closer to a commercial release.
Thank you for cracking me up.
My pleasure is to make women happy. I'm glad I succeeded.
One of the best gaming groups I played in was run by a woman. In fact, I'd say most of my gaming before her was with guys only and were simple hack-n-slash. Co-ed gaming really opened up the Role Playing aspect. I've been sold on Role Playing since then. It makes the games so memorable.
I'm 32 and I've been playing since I was 9. Role Playing really opened up for me at 19. I feel like I've lived decades of romance and intrigue and yet feel like it was just yesterday that I started playing. It is a wonderful feeling if you get a good GM.
Sterling Keener
MCSE, CCNP
sckeener@yahoo.com
The "rules" are guidelines like stabilisers on a kid's bike: once you get the hang of role playing you can take them off. In that sense there never was any need for second and thrid edition
I agree to a point. The other editions are needed, but to do exactly what you wish that they did. The later editions (3rd to be exact) make it easier to ignore the rules. I consider the later editions to just be standard practices.
Think of Linux, you could continue to use your slackware from the early 90s and develop your own apps. Or you can take the streamlined standards (hopefully) of the newer versions to make it easier to branch out with less work on the fundamental applications.
FYI for those that don't know: D&D 3ed is OGL (open gaming license) which was based on the GPL.
Now where is that battleaxe I need for the staff meeting?
Dude, you need a staff of power for a staff meeting or are you getting rid of dead wood?
Did anyone's DM ever complain that there was no way it would all fit?
Most ignore it because it is difficult. Most fantasy games do get around this problem by extra-dimensional spaces such as bags of holding or a Portable Hole Full of Beer
The one problem you do run into in most paper & pen games is space. Weight is usually in some table, but dimensions of the item are usually rare. How to keep track of both is the hard part.
Ah well. On the up side, I'm married
See if you had not posted that fact, you might have been able to game. That was a great ad and you picked a great place to put it.
I was certain you were going to get some offers...to game, but ya blew it.
(kidding - good luck finding a group. try posting at the local gaming shop for a group.)
I was thinking the same thing. Combine someone that reads /. with someone that has seen theologists write PhD thesis' about how D&D is not sacreligious
How rare is that? I guess it would even be rarer if he has a date.
please someone mod the parent post as a troll or flamebait...
book burning is not the way regardless of your faith.
Ah memories of the 4 sider....One of the first Gamma World sets had a sharp 4 sided.
A friend walking across wood flooring in the living room stepped on it. He screamed of course and jumped up into the air.
Unfortunately the 4 sider was impaled on his foot, so that he drove it in deeper when he came back down on it.
I should have felt bad, but it looked so ridiculous with the martial arts leap into the air....
In an episode on Babylon 5, one species was dieing off because they wiped out another sentient species that they infrequently swapped genes with.
Even if they perfected Fem to Fem breeding, I suspect B5 concept of not knowing what gene's you'll need would come back to bite us.
I was about to whip out 'what is the ISBN for the man show', but Playboy probably covers that.
We can now put information down on paper!!!
Just think of what we can do now!
You could like....put a whole book or something on it!
If you think your eye sight is bad now....
or we could have a new geek license where they make you read the bottom line without your glasses.
Let me guess... Your partner is Macgyver? =)
No, but he did play him on TV.
Obviously you've never had to face anything like this before. Before considering how high and mighty you'd be, remember that prosecution conviction rates are in the 90% across the states. If you ever get accused, win any way you can.
I've lost both of my parents to prison. My mother is guilty and my father is not. My father was actually a lawyer who believed in justice.
We do not have justice. We have law. There is a big difference. Don't trust that they'll play fair. Don't trust your lawyer to do a good job. Don't trust the jury to see the holes in the story.
Bash any hole you can in the prosecutions case.
And remember, it's going to cost a ton of money.
I was about to respond to each reply, but to save time:
According to the US Department of Commerce
"the average poverty threshold for a family of four in 2002 was $18,392 in annual income;
compared with $14,348 for a family of three"
With that kind of income in relationship to their family size, food is a major factor in their budjet. If they are saving even 10% or one free month a year, that is a big savings in relationship to their income.
They might get clothes for their kids with that kind of money...
Loyalty cards are your choice, and you can still buy stuff without them.
But it may be choice few low income families can afford.
If you are rich, you can afford to have privacy.