You forget - 5) "Sure she's nut's, but she looks really good in those jeans, and it's not like I'll get *caught*." Evolution holds no cure for people made stupid by the opposite gender.
Well, simply to correct what seems to me to be sloppy thinking, please note that the terms 'Anarchal' and 'Society' are mutually exclusive terms - if you have social expectations of your neighbors, you're not living in anarchy.
The problem with Anarchy is the only ones that *really* want it are those that are sure they have the skills to survive it and come out on top. Notably, all save one of these people are wrong - and that one generally doesn't really believe in anarchy him (or Her) self - Dictatorships are much more fun. I mean, if your going to be on top anyway . . .
The rest of it is all bs where people define anarchy as "Getting rid of all those cumbersome rules . . . well, not the rules any reasonable person can see are necessary of course . . . just that other stupid stuff . ..". Pretty much where I see most libertarians are as well, though they have a slightly better (Or at least more consistent) definition of 'necessary' rules.
You've completely convinced me. Yes, we should buy a new car, incompatible with the old roads. Buy *new* roads to all destinations! I don't care how many miles are left on your old car - we shall upgrade our cars together!
And if you can't go to everywhere you had old roads, don't worry about it. The Market will fix that problem. Eventually.
I was going to bring up Starflight for the same reason - a game that was fun to replay, had a full and developed plotline, and was worth the time to replay.
That's what happens when you keep screaming "Why am I surrounds by idiots" and dropping your henchmen in the pirahna tank - eventually all the *creative* idiots are fish food.
Now, if you're a Fu Manchu, Moriarity, or Ming the Merciless, you're smart enough to go ahead with work anyway. But if you're the leader of an evil conspiracy where Dick Cheney is considered to be the 'Smart One', then you quickly run out of talent to fall back on, and get stuck with outside firms.
Worse, frankly, pirahna won't even eat marketing people. Not so much a professional courtesy thing - they just taste bad.
I know it's hard not to these days - I consciously *make* myself browse conservative sites and read the stories, but the logic is so *skewed*, and if you make a comment on it - boom, you're banned as a troll.
I made (IIRC) three postings at Free Republic in a month. Banned. How is it *possible* to be a Troll with three posts?
It's a lot easier to read liberal press. They make stupid statements too, but I have yet to get banned when I point that out.
One of the thing that through me off is a number of blind statements that "These are standard practice, and you should know better"
I am, of course, NAL. Nonetheless I did pass what seemed at the time to be a reasonably good course on business law, and it was fairly explicit in stating that the interstate agreement on contracts did *not* require that consumers be bound by "Common Practice" agreements of this type. The exact dividing line was whether or not both parties were in a relationship between professionals - if you ship me 1500 widgets, and I'm in the business of building things out of widgets, we're both professionals, and I am expected to abide both by specific terms and by general practices in the widget industry, even if not spelled out.
If I order 1,500 widgets online, and am a hobbyist, as I understand it the interstate agreements on contracts explicitly state that I am not subject to industry practices, and any agreements on my orders have to explicit and simple to understand. That's one of the reasons there was a big (failed) push to amend these compacts to recognize EULA's, was because as currently written EULA's aren't going to stand up to a proper inspection under contract law. (Heck, most of the time an EULA isn't presented to me until after I've bought the product, which by definition means it fails under contract law - One of the underpinning requirments is that a contract was negotiated before the goods were delivered. At least as it was taught to me.)
Perhaps someone can explain why these protections written into the interstate compacts are not applicable here?
I'm just airing this as a representative of the paranoid mindset. The choice are narrowed down to at this point - either they didn't know, and they were incompetent to an extraordinary degree, or they did know, and for other reasons chose not to interfere - and it's not a particularly large leap to believe that the administation is in fact, not incompetent.
And I think that's the ringer - 'for other reasons, chose not to interfere'. Not necessarily 'As a grab for power, chose to 3000 people to die' or 'to disarm the Demcrats, chose to make the president a war president', but 'for other reasons, chose to interfere'. Only a crazy, sick set of people could let 3,000 people die for a powergrab, or as a political ploy.
But, as a step necessary for a greater good? That's possible. Even glorified - is there any student of history that doesn't think about difficulty of Churchill's decision allow Coventry to be bombed, or whether or not Roosevelt might have been aware of Pearl Harbor beforehand and used it to bring the U.S. into the war? Heartrending decisions to be sure, but compelling to right kind of mindset that dreams of making the 'Hard Calls' a 'lesser person' might balk at.
And that's the bit of paranoia that eats at me. That it was done because somebody thought they were making a hard call for the greater good, and didn't really realize how bad it was going to be, and now they feel compelled to justify the decision to themselves by whatever means necessary. To make that decision and be proved right by history makes you a Churchill, a Lincoln, a Kennedy. To make it and have history prove you wrong? The kindest example would be the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
I don't see our president as a strong man, capable of looking in the mirror and admitting the error, nevermind correcting it. Frankly, I yet to see anyone in his administration that won't keep pushing it further and further rather than admitting to the error. Maybe I would too, if I had to look at myself in the morning through such a lens. Frankly, it's the only sort of lens I can look at it through that gives me any empathy at all for them - the thought that, just maybe, they had this romantic ideal of making 'the hard decisions', and suddenly found themselves riding a tiger that they had to use to attack everyone else lest they end savaged themselves.
But, although it's a view that gives me some glimmer of empathy for the administration, it's also a view that scares the hell out of me, because I haven't seen any evidence of any principles they won't shred in order to come out of this with their self image intact.
The Temperature recommended for baking a cake is generally 425-450 Degrees Fahrenheit. Going by your previous statement I can only assume you serve the cake at the same temperature? Brings whole new meaning to "It's my party and I can cry if I want to".
Of course not. McDonalds didn't Brew a fresh pot of coffee at 199 degrees and hand it to her, it maintained the coffee at 180 degrees - considerably hotter than a standard coffee pot, not necessary for maintaining the flavor (Sealing it away from oxygen will do a dandy job of that), and as it happens, hot enough to cause fairly massive burns. They thought she had no case, didn't want to pay the bill, and it turned out she not only had a case, but they were stupid enough to make the jury feel they needed a heavy fine to make sure they didn't do something that stupid next time.
Unless you honestly feel that companies *should* routinely hand people things that can harm them when alternatives are available, I really don't see the problem with the ruling.
Hmmm, maybe, maybe not. Hollywood/TV is having problem with the simple fact the HDTV highlights the body in ways that makeup no longer covers.
While on some level I don't really mind the concept of perhaps Actors/Actresses becoming perceived as simply actractive than the artificial "Flawless" that's perceived today (Intellectually, of course we realize it's fake. My hormones are however pretty determined that, yes, of course Charlize Theron really looks like that.), is there any industry more affected by the disruption of that then Porn?
Ultra High definition may not exactly be a boon to them in the final analysis.
I will suspend judgment, but it sure doesn't leave a good impression.
Part of the "Joy of Shadowrun" as an RPG was that it forced characters to both work between the classes, because you *can't* survive without a mage, a decker, (You can make it without a rigger, but life is hard), or a samurai/adept, but allowed for character development as a solo gig because because each class had things it almost *had* to do alone. There were three, almost four obvious worlds involved - The "Real World", Cyberspace, the Astral, and the "Low-level" matrix, where non-hackers interacted with the computers.
If you can keep that interaction, where the deckers are going in real-time, the Mage is on astral overwatch, the samurai are in a firefight, and an elemental that last appeared during Dresden is blasting things, then this can be a FPS/RPG that can pull it together.
If you try to "Balance" it out, so that a mage can survive on his own, a Decker can have a sniper rifle, and a Street Sam and an Adept are the exact same thing only with tech and magic, and there will be no room for RPG left, and this will die a horrid death.
And you should never, *EVER* be able to kill a Great Dragon without a nuclear warhead.
More succinctly, settings that, in closed source are typically undocumented and so inaccessible to access as to be unusable are more easily available in open source. Documented, ehh, not so much.
Hmm - actually, looking at the highlights of the first google page, it would appear that everyone that comes up agrees that it's possible to write unstable extensions - hardly the same thing.
Personally, I agree - I have had extensions that seem to cause the browser to crash. When I uninstall them and limit myself to the one or two . . . okay, twenty-eight extensions I have installed that seem to be perfectly okay, I don't have crashes.
I suppose the definition of whether or not a game is an RPG to me is whether or not the character can be (significantly) different from game to game.
No One lives Forever is a fun FPS with a great character, fun plot, and definite storyline, but fudamentally my RP choice are whether to shoot, or sneak by the opponent. Fun, great story, not an RPG.
My character in Balders Gate can be a Mage, a nice guy, a complete ass, out to save the world, or out to destroy his half-brother to take power for himself. I can play a character like myself, or someone I completely despise (Not to imply these are mutually exclusive - ).
What I've *seen* of the Eastern RPG, is that they are often no more RPG than No One Lives Forever was - Great Story, but the characters can no more step out of their predefined paths than Cate Archer can.
Now, if you don't LIKE creating a character rather than riding along well crafted story, that's fine - you like interactive storytelling. But that's an interactive story, not an "Eastern" RPG.
And what will kill IE, if MS goes true to form, is that they will look at the top 50 Firefox plugin, and code all of them into IE.
*ALL* of them. Not the fiften I use, or the four you love, every last one. Corporate managers will love it, but the IT departments will stay on Firefox - .
If you try to shoot yourself in the foot in Windows, it will try and stop you. It may save you, you may end up shooting yourself in the gut, but it *will* try.
If you try to shoot yourself in the foot in Linux, it will recommend a better weapon with which to do so. This may save you too when you realize the new tool doesn't have a caliber so much as a blast radius.
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You forget -
5) "Sure she's nut's, but she looks really good in those jeans, and it's not like I'll get *caught*."
Evolution holds no cure for people made stupid by the opposite gender.
Pug
Well, simply to correct what seems to me to be sloppy thinking, please note that the terms 'Anarchal' and 'Society' are mutually exclusive terms - if you have social expectations of your neighbors, you're not living in anarchy.
.". Pretty much where I see most libertarians are as well, though they have a slightly better (Or at least more consistent) definition of 'necessary' rules.
The problem with Anarchy is the only ones that *really* want it are those that are sure they have the skills to survive it and come out on top. Notably, all save one of these people are wrong - and that one generally doesn't really believe in anarchy him (or Her) self - Dictatorships are much more fun. I mean, if your going to be on top anyway . . .
The rest of it is all bs where people define anarchy as "Getting rid of all those cumbersome rules . . . well, not the rules any reasonable person can see are necessary of course . . . just that other stupid stuff . .
Pug
You've completely convinced me. Yes, we should buy a new car, incompatible with the old roads. Buy *new* roads to all destinations! I don't care how many miles are left on your old car - we shall upgrade our cars together!
And if you can't go to everywhere you had old roads, don't worry about it. The Market will fix that problem. Eventually.
Pug
I was going to bring up Starflight for the same reason - a game that was fun to replay, had a full and developed plotline, and was worth the time to replay.
Pug
That's what happens when you keep screaming "Why am I surrounds by idiots" and dropping your henchmen in the pirahna tank - eventually all the *creative* idiots are fish food.
Now, if you're a Fu Manchu, Moriarity, or Ming the Merciless, you're smart enough to go ahead with work anyway. But if you're the leader of an evil conspiracy where Dick Cheney is considered to be the 'Smart One', then you quickly run out of talent to fall back on, and get stuck with outside firms.
Worse, frankly, pirahna won't even eat marketing people. Not so much a professional courtesy thing - they just taste bad.
Pug
I know it's hard not to these days - I consciously *make* myself browse conservative sites and read the stories, but the logic is so *skewed*, and if you make a comment on it - boom, you're banned as a troll.
I made (IIRC) three postings at Free Republic in a month. Banned. How is it *possible* to be a Troll with three posts?
It's a lot easier to read liberal press. They make stupid statements too, but I have yet to get banned when I point that out.
Pug
And yet, some of them are Republicans anyway.
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Whereas your more mature approach impresses us deeply.
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One of the thing that through me off is a number of blind statements that "These are standard practice, and you should know better"
I am, of course, NAL. Nonetheless I did pass what seemed at the time to be a reasonably good course on business law, and it was fairly explicit in stating that the interstate agreement on contracts did *not* require that consumers be bound by "Common Practice" agreements of this type. The exact dividing line was whether or not both parties were in a relationship between professionals - if you ship me 1500 widgets, and I'm in the business of building things out of widgets, we're both professionals, and I am expected to abide both by specific terms and by general practices in the widget industry, even if not spelled out.
If I order 1,500 widgets online, and am a hobbyist, as I understand it the interstate agreements on contracts explicitly state that I am not subject to industry practices, and any agreements on my orders have to explicit and simple to understand. That's one of the reasons there was a big (failed) push to amend these compacts to recognize EULA's, was because as currently written EULA's aren't going to stand up to a proper inspection under contract law. (Heck, most of the time an EULA isn't presented to me until after I've bought the product, which by definition means it fails under contract law - One of the underpinning requirments is that a contract was negotiated before the goods were delivered. At least as it was taught to me.)
Perhaps someone can explain why these protections written into the interstate compacts are not applicable here?
Pug
I'm just airing this as a representative of the paranoid mindset.
The choice are narrowed down to at this point - either they didn't know, and they were incompetent to an extraordinary degree, or they did know, and for other reasons chose not to interfere - and it's not a particularly large leap to believe that the administation is in fact, not incompetent.
And I think that's the ringer - 'for other reasons, chose not to interfere'. Not necessarily 'As a grab for power, chose to 3000 people to die' or 'to disarm the Demcrats, chose to make the president a war president', but 'for other reasons, chose to interfere'. Only a crazy, sick set of people could let 3,000 people die for a powergrab, or as a political ploy.
But, as a step necessary for a greater good? That's possible. Even glorified - is there any student of history that doesn't think about difficulty of Churchill's decision allow Coventry to be bombed, or whether or not Roosevelt might have been aware of Pearl Harbor beforehand and used it to bring the U.S. into the war? Heartrending decisions to be sure, but compelling to right kind of mindset that dreams of making the 'Hard Calls' a 'lesser person' might balk at.
And that's the bit of paranoia that eats at me. That it was done because somebody thought they were making a hard call for the greater good, and didn't really realize how bad it was going to be, and now they feel compelled to justify the decision to themselves by whatever means necessary. To make that decision and be proved right by history makes you a Churchill, a Lincoln, a Kennedy. To make it and have history prove you wrong? The kindest example would be the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
I don't see our president as a strong man, capable of looking in the mirror and admitting the error, nevermind correcting it. Frankly, I yet to see anyone in his administration that won't keep pushing it further and further rather than admitting to the error. Maybe I would too, if I had to look at myself in the morning through such a lens. Frankly, it's the only sort of lens I can look at it through that gives me any empathy at all for them - the thought that, just maybe, they had this romantic ideal of making 'the hard decisions', and suddenly found themselves riding a tiger that they had to use to attack everyone else lest they end savaged themselves.
But, although it's a view that gives me some glimmer of empathy for the administration, it's also a view that scares the hell out of me, because I haven't seen any evidence of any principles they won't shred in order to come out of this with their self image intact.
Pug
Sneak has the same problem - I designed a character with sneak and acrobatics.
Don't know what I was thinking - I can only plead that it had been awhile since I played Morrowind.
Pug
The Temperature recommended for baking a cake is generally 425-450 Degrees Fahrenheit. Going by your previous statement I can only assume you serve the cake at the same temperature? Brings whole new meaning to "It's my party and I can cry if I want to".
Of course not. McDonalds didn't Brew a fresh pot of coffee at 199 degrees and hand it to her, it maintained the coffee at 180 degrees - considerably hotter than a standard coffee pot, not necessary for maintaining the flavor (Sealing it away from oxygen will do a dandy job of that), and as it happens, hot enough to cause fairly massive burns. They thought she had no case, didn't want to pay the bill, and it turned out she not only had a case, but they were stupid enough to make the jury feel they needed a heavy fine to make sure they didn't do something that stupid next time.
Unless you honestly feel that companies *should* routinely hand people things that can harm them when alternatives are available, I really don't see the problem with the ruling.
Pug
Be Fair - I horribly butchered the law long before I had an account here.
Pug
Hmmm, maybe, maybe not. Hollywood/TV is having problem with the simple fact the HDTV highlights the body in ways that makeup no longer covers.
While on some level I don't really mind the concept of perhaps Actors/Actresses becoming perceived as simply actractive than the artificial "Flawless" that's perceived today (Intellectually, of course we realize it's fake. My hormones are however pretty determined that, yes, of course Charlize Theron really looks like that.), is there any industry more affected by the disruption of that then Porn?
Ultra High definition may not exactly be a boon to them in the final analysis.
Pug
Hah - I saw a teleportation. It was in Berlin - damndest thing I ever fraggin' saw. High Mana Zone my ass!
What's the Third Degree Mage say in Berlin? "You want Fries with that?"
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I will suspend judgment, but it sure doesn't leave a good impression.
Part of the "Joy of Shadowrun" as an RPG was that it forced characters to both work between the classes, because you *can't* survive without a mage, a decker, (You can make it without a rigger, but life is hard), or a samurai/adept, but allowed for character development as a solo gig because because each class had things it almost *had* to do alone. There were three, almost four obvious worlds involved - The "Real World", Cyberspace, the Astral, and the "Low-level" matrix, where non-hackers interacted with the computers.
If you can keep that interaction, where the deckers are going in real-time, the Mage is on astral overwatch, the samurai are in a firefight, and an elemental that last appeared during Dresden is blasting things, then this can be a FPS/RPG that can pull it together.
If you try to "Balance" it out, so that a mage can survive on his own, a Decker can have a sniper rifle, and a Street Sam and an Adept are the exact same thing only with tech and magic, and there will be no room for RPG left, and this will die a horrid death.
And you should never, *EVER* be able to kill a Great Dragon without a nuclear warhead.
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a secret mutant tooo
More succinctly, settings that, in closed source are typically undocumented and so inaccessible to access as to be unusable are more easily available in open source. Documented, ehh, not so much.
Pug
Hmm - actually, looking at the highlights of the first google page, it would appear that everyone that comes up agrees that it's possible to write unstable extensions - hardly the same thing.
Personally, I agree - I have had extensions that seem to cause the browser to crash. When I uninstall them and limit myself to the one or two . . . okay, twenty-eight extensions I have installed that seem to be perfectly okay, I don't have crashes.
Pardon me sir, but your hyperbole is showing.
Pug
That's why I run my IE and Norton under Linux.
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Well, that and I can power my deathray from the moron-antimoron energy thus produced .
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No Maximum achievments? Wow - You just threw every good Tabletop RPG besides Toon out of the Definition.
You are hereby thwacked with the Hammer of knocking sense into people + 24. Save for half-wit.
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Oh sure - take the "Mainstream" view, completely ignore the other evidence.
The fun thing about the Elder Scrolls is, There *is* another whole side to that story -{G}.
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I suppose the definition of whether or not a game is an RPG to me is whether or not the character can be (significantly) different from game to game.
No One lives Forever is a fun FPS with a great character, fun plot, and definite storyline, but fudamentally my RP choice are whether to shoot, or sneak by the opponent. Fun, great story, not an RPG.
My character in Balders Gate can be a Mage, a nice guy, a complete ass, out to save the world, or out to destroy his half-brother to take power for himself. I can play a character like myself, or someone I completely despise (Not to imply these are mutually exclusive - ).
What I've *seen* of the Eastern RPG, is that they are often no more RPG than No One Lives Forever was - Great Story, but the characters can no more step out of their predefined paths than Cate Archer can.
Now, if you don't LIKE creating a character rather than riding along well crafted story, that's fine - you like interactive storytelling. But that's an interactive story, not an "Eastern" RPG.
Pug
And what will kill IE, if MS goes true to form, is that they will look at the top 50 Firefox plugin, and code all of them into IE.
*ALL* of them. Not the fiften I use, or the four you love, every last one. Corporate managers will love it, but the IT departments will stay on Firefox - .
If you try to shoot yourself in the foot in Windows, it will try and stop you. It may save you, you may end up shooting yourself in the gut, but it *will* try.
If you try to shoot yourself in the foot in Linux, it will recommend a better weapon with which to do so. This may save you too when you realize the new tool doesn't have a caliber so much as a blast radius.
Pug