I used to have a nasty addiction to ThunderDome and StormGate, but mud addictions never really lasted that long for me. A few months and suddenly I'd just get bored, or something else would catch my interest.
The best way to break these kinds of addictions is to lose the ability to play them for a while. Go camping, cancel your credit card, visit friends/relatives, etc. Once you lose the ability to actually play at will, there's a good chance you won't go back to it even after you get the option back.
at the high end you are required to spend multiple hours (sometimes up to twelve hours) with a "raid force" of 60 or more people just killing useless, annoying mobs (which drop little or no loot) put there as obstacles.
No, you're not "required" to do anything.
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I always thought that the idea of freeing Kevin was retarded. I'm not even interested in what he was charged with originally. The guy skipped bail and ran from the law for two years. Why? I'm sorry, but I don't buy anyone's excuses about how there was no way he could get a fair trial under our corrupt, draconian legal system.
True. Wait until the next accused cracker is denied bail because experience has shown that skilled ones can more easily escape by using their hacker skills.
As much as all the Europeans and Japanphiles would love to think us behind in some way, we're not. Japanese and European cell phone customers have certain features because there's a demand. That's it. It's not like the technology to create it isn't here. Hell, we invented the damn technology.
No, I just disagree with it. The communications director for the ACU mentions that his number has fallen mainly as a result of campaign finance reform, which as I've said before is not a liberal or conservative issue; the rank-and-file of both parties tend to support it.
The McCain-Feingold-Cochran Campaign Reform Act [senate.gov]. This act was assailed by many conservatives as being unconstitutional and giving incumbants free reign in their campaigns.
First of all, that's one example, not some. Second of all it doesn't count as "post-election" as he's been pushing it for years. Thirdly it has nothing whatsoever to do with conservative or liberal ideology, it's just that the Republicans would hate to lose their massive campaign war chest advantage.
I'd guess a large amount of average conservative voters support campaign finance reform. It's the Republican leadership which is against it, for the aforementioned leaders. That's what I mean when I say McCain isn't a Democrat in Republican's clothing, he's just annoyed the Republican leadership and thus is accused of it.
That is a very small electorate and each state senator is thus more responsive and responsible as they can be ousted much more easily.
We used to have this system. It didn't prevent corruption; in fact, corruption is far easier on a local level because you don't have as many people looking at what you're doing.
What I can see happening is state legislatures ousting democratically elected Senators because they don't like their ideology. State legislatures tend to be far more conservative than their respective populations (look at Florida's legislature's actions during the 2000 election debacle).
The only thing that would make me happier is to see the 16th and 17th amendments repealed. The state legislatures need to be able to hold their senators' asses to the fire again to keep them from compromising on our rights.
Alright, the 16th amendment I can see you wanting out; you don't like to pay federal income tax. Neither do I, but I think they're necessary to the continued well-being of the country. But I can understand you disagreeing on this point.
But the 17th amendment? You really think we should go back to letting state legislatures select Senators? I can't see the logic in that. It took us long enought to get universal suffrage, why take it away?
A cop with such an approach to executing the law of the land will think twice before trying to beat someone within an inch of their lives if they think the person is armed and knows how to use the gun. That is especially true for racial and ethnic minorities.
This has been shown not to be true. All that happens is the police are more likely to draw and shoot first.
That's just amazingly wrong. Wow. How can you stand being so wrong?
McCain's opponents accuse him of being a liberal because he had the audacity to run against the interests of some of the Republican party's leaders. They're still angry.
His Stances and choices usually support what the Democrats want, and often exceeds their wildest dreams.
Give us some examples. The American Conservative Union and the Americans for Democratic Action, two diametrically opposed organizations both rank his voting record as highly conservative. I'm a liberal Democrat and I would love it if McCain turned Democrat, but it sure as hell hasn't happened.
Do you have any evidence to base these absurd beliefs on? Any whatsoever?
That really is a nasty group of suspects, but we might want to add:
Uhh, some of them are, some of them aren't. For example, they nominated:
BBC Watchdog: 'for a report on the important issue of spam that was more intent on vilifying ISP's than educating consumers'
The awards are given by an ISP association, so the nominations are going to be skewed like that. Keep in mind these aren't Internet villains in general, but groups that the British ISP industry perceives as hostile to them. Which, when you think about it, isn't really worth a Slashdot front page story...
I don't usually reply to anonymous cowards, but I'll make an exception. Apparently you know very, very little about the history of China, or the state of affairs there, so I'm not sure why exactly you decided to jump into this conversation.
Alright, now if you take such issue with my statements, why not try to support your theory with facts? Please tell me how all us mean ol' xenophobes are just getting China all wrong. Tell us how the government doesn't brutally oppress its people. Tell us how a little bit of capitalism is somehow going to magically negate decades of totalitarian brutality. Come on, son, put your money where your mouth is.
Uhhhhh....The WTO does not define reality. They won't have too much trouble coercing their populace into buying what they want them to buy, despite what a couple of plutocrats in Geneva think of them.
Bah. China's doing this because their government has developed a profound hatred/jealousy of first world countries, and are simply doing this in a quixotic attempt to show how "advanced" they are. They've done this sort of thing before; look up "Great Leap Forward" on google.com if you want to find out the results.
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I used to have a nasty addiction to ThunderDome and StormGate, but mud addictions never really lasted that long for me. A few months and suddenly I'd just get bored, or something else would catch my interest.
The best way to break these kinds of addictions is to lose the ability to play them for a while. Go camping, cancel your credit card, visit friends/relatives, etc. Once you lose the ability to actually play at will, there's a good chance you won't go back to it even after you get the option back.
at the high end you are required to spend multiple hours (sometimes up to twelve hours) with a "raid force" of 60 or more people just killing useless, annoying mobs (which drop little or no loot) put there as obstacles.
No, you're not "required" to do anything.
I always thought that the idea of freeing Kevin was retarded. I'm not even interested in what he was charged with originally. The guy skipped bail and ran from the law for two years. Why? I'm sorry, but I don't buy anyone's excuses about how there was no way he could get a fair trial under our corrupt, draconian legal system.
True. Wait until the next accused cracker is denied bail because experience has shown that skilled ones can more easily escape by using their hacker skills.
Because developing and giving it away for free just isn't enough.
And the president and board of directors should come to our houses and mow the lawn every Sunday afternoon.
Would be nice if programmers and engineers would, too.
As much as all the Europeans and Japanphiles would love to think us behind in some way, we're not. Japanese and European cell phone customers have certain features because there's a demand. That's it. It's not like the technology to create it isn't here. Hell, we invented the damn technology.
Yep, nothing impresses the ladies more than not having a job.
No, I just disagree with it. The communications director for the ACU mentions that his number has fallen mainly as a result of campaign finance reform, which as I've said before is not a liberal or conservative issue; the rank-and-file of both parties tend to support it.
Uhhh, no, your 1040 shows that you're funding a right-wing agenda. Not many liberals argue for increased defense spending.
The McCain-Feingold-Cochran Campaign Reform Act [senate.gov]. This act was assailed by many conservatives as being unconstitutional and giving incumbants free reign in their campaigns.
First of all, that's one example, not some. Second of all it doesn't count as "post-election" as he's been pushing it for years. Thirdly it has nothing whatsoever to do with conservative or liberal ideology, it's just that the Republicans would hate to lose their massive campaign war chest advantage.
I'd guess a large amount of average conservative voters support campaign finance reform. It's the Republican leadership which is against it, for the aforementioned leaders. That's what I mean when I say McCain isn't a Democrat in Republican's clothing, he's just annoyed the Republican leadership and thus is accused of it.
That is a very small electorate and each state senator is thus more responsive and responsible as they can be ousted much more easily.
We used to have this system. It didn't prevent corruption; in fact, corruption is far easier on a local level because you don't have as many people looking at what you're doing.
What I can see happening is state legislatures ousting democratically elected Senators because they don't like their ideology. State legislatures tend to be far more conservative than their respective populations (look at Florida's legislature's actions during the 2000 election debacle).
The only thing that would make me happier is to see the 16th and 17th amendments repealed. The state legislatures need to be able to hold their senators' asses to the fire again to keep them from compromising on our rights.
Alright, the 16th amendment I can see you wanting out; you don't like to pay federal income tax. Neither do I, but I think they're necessary to the continued well-being of the country. But I can understand you disagreeing on this point.
But the 17th amendment? You really think we should go back to letting state legislatures select Senators? I can't see the logic in that. It took us long enought to get universal suffrage, why take it away?
A cop with such an approach to executing the law of the land will think twice before trying to beat someone within an inch of their lives if they think the person is armed and knows how to use the gun. That is especially true for racial and ethnic minorities.
This has been shown not to be true. All that happens is the police are more likely to draw and shoot first.
That article makes a pretty big generalization out of only two issues, and was written at the beginning of Bush's presidency.
Organizations that track voting records show that for the most part he votes conservative.
That's just amazingly wrong. Wow. How can you stand being so wrong?
McCain's opponents accuse him of being a liberal because he had the audacity to run against the interests of some of the Republican party's leaders. They're still angry.
His Stances and choices usually support what the Democrats want, and often exceeds their wildest dreams.
Give us some examples. The American Conservative Union and the Americans for Democratic Action, two diametrically opposed organizations both rank his voting record as highly conservative. I'm a liberal Democrat and I would love it if McCain turned Democrat, but it sure as hell hasn't happened.
Do you have any evidence to base these absurd beliefs on? Any whatsoever?
Actually he was around during the time of Nazi Germany. He spent WW2 fighting the Nazis as a bomber pilot.
That really is a nasty group of suspects, but we might want to add:
Uhh, some of them are, some of them aren't. For example, they nominated:
BBC Watchdog: 'for a report on the important issue of spam that was more intent on vilifying ISP's than educating consumers'
The awards are given by an ISP association, so the nominations are going to be skewed like that. Keep in mind these aren't Internet villains in general, but groups that the British ISP industry perceives as hostile to them. Which, when you think about it, isn't really worth a Slashdot front page story...
I don't usually reply to anonymous cowards, but I'll make an exception. Apparently you know very, very little about the history of China, or the state of affairs there, so I'm not sure why exactly you decided to jump into this conversation.
Alright, now if you take such issue with my statements, why not try to support your theory with facts? Please tell me how all us mean ol' xenophobes are just getting China all wrong. Tell us how the government doesn't brutally oppress its people. Tell us how a little bit of capitalism is somehow going to magically negate decades of totalitarian brutality. Come on, son, put your money where your mouth is.
who the hell are you to determine what's the "right way"?
A thinking human being who isn't a moral relativist.
Uhhhhh....The WTO does not define reality. They won't have too much trouble coercing their populace into buying what they want them to buy, despite what a couple of plutocrats in Geneva think of them.
And the average slashdot poster will think the Linux computers are more important.
They're a brutal, totalitarian government who have decided to implement capitalism without democracy. They're not doing anything "the right way".
Bah. China's doing this because their government has developed a profound hatred/jealousy of first world countries, and are simply doing this in a quixotic attempt to show how "advanced" they are. They've done this sort of thing before; look up "Great Leap Forward" on google.com if you want to find out the results.
You know, we probably could have understood your message without the emphases.
"Blogging", besides being an extremely annoying term has way too much attention paid to it nowadays. It's just not that interesting a phenomenon.
If by nicely you mean slowly.
I admire these guys for trying, and I'd love one to be available, but they've been working on it since the 1960's.