I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative.
I am so sick of the ridiculous associations that get thrown around by all sides when politics come up. Yes, clearly all conservatives want no rights so that we can enslave and torture everyone. If that last statement doesn't sound ridiculous to you then god help our country because there's no hope left. We don't even have a clear definition of conservative and liberal, going with the most commonly used definitions neither party in power really fits nicely into being conservative or being liberal yet people throw around overblown stereotypes based on the Republican party for conservatives and equally overblown stereotypes based on the Democratic party for liberals.
Go ahead and flame me now, I'm sure I pissed off someone.
The conservative base is about all we have protecting our freedom at this point.
By ensuring the government is a Christian theocracy and that you should treat your neighbor as yourself? Unless, of course, your neighbor is gay, black, from another country,...
You're displaying a complete ignorance of actual Christian values here, you should treat your neighbor as yourself. The exceptions you list afterwards are the failings of people, not the teachings of the Bible.
I don't know about you but I don't consider the Republican Party to be very in touch with conservative values, they just happen to be less out of touch with them than the Democratic Party. The Patriot Act was horrible from a freedom and privacy standpoint, two things I consider to be conservative values.
Once again proving how ill-defined liberalism and conservativism are. You're applying your own definition of liberalism to an entire country without knowing how the people in the group you're applying the definition to define the word.
Where a particular organization falls on "the spectrum" is influenced by your own position on said spectrum. If you believe Fox is far, far off the right then that implies that your center point is where most of the liberal media falls on the spectrum. Someone who is very conservative likely sees Fox as the center point. I personally, along with most people I have met and actually discussed politics with believe the center point lies in between Fox and the liberal media.
Intelligent people often put more worth in their education, indeed better education can help nurture intelligence. Given that the vast majority of high school teachers and college professors are heavily liberal-leaning is this really a surprise?
Not sure why this is Flamebait, it's not expressed in the best manner but the statement Parent quoted does imply that liberals are rational and thus conservatives are irrational (which if Parent is considered Flamebait then by the same logic quoted would also be Flamebait).
yeah have a hard time believing that im talking about the same game, despite the developers of the very game have stated that they were going to remove a lot of ccs and cc immunities come cata. apparently, they dont agree with you.
Notice they are removing some of the immunities as well...
I've been playing since the level cap was 60, and I can't figure out if you're just confused and actually playing a different game or just awful at pvp. Other possibility is that you're trolling I suppose.
AoE cc that causes you to lose control of your character: Fears. The classes that have this available to them are: Priest (Instant, on cooldown), Warlock (Cast time, can be made instant with talents, also on cooldown), and Warrior (I believe this is also instant and on cooldown). As with all types of CC Fear is subject to diminishing returns, the basic concept of which is that each time you are affected by a Fear effect it will be shorter, the fourth time you will be immune and continue to be immune until the timer resets. Each category of CC is on a diminishing return timer, they specifically designed it so that you couldn't be CC'd over and over and over with no recourse. There are also abilities and items that can be used to break CC used on you.
The PvP in WoW has definitely become more balanced over time, back at 60 it was basically rock, paper, scissors. Class design was such that one class was the counter to a few classes, and was hard countered by a few others, the few left were mostly on equal footing. Melee classes have traditionally been more reliant on gear but also scaled better with it. They have also been granted more ways to close the gap over the last two expansions and a well geared melee will tear apart a caster if the caster can't keep away from them. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that Blizzard will make plate have less survivability than casters in Cataclysm but I'm not seeing that at all.
TL;DR: Perhaps there are other players who agree with you but having played for quite awhile myself I have a hard time believing we're even talking about the same game.
They don't ban people for bringing this up, I've seen plenty do it that are still around. The people getting banned are either doing something else to warrant the ban or it's the way they're going about it (furious wall-of-text attacks against blizzard and the "lazy developers who won't do what I want" are not the proper way to bring up an issue).
You may be different but for me the addiction was only bad before I quit the first time (actually sold the account, back when you could ebay them). I was convinced to come back by a few friends shortly before Burning Crusade came out and although I've played on and off since there's no "need" to play like there was before. I just play for my enjoyment, mainly when friends are on and if something comes up or I feel like doing something else I just go do that. My point I guess is that it doesn't need to be an addiction every time.
Building so much into the client is doing it wrong.
Keep in mind that there are people who do not use addons, for a myriad of reasons. Some of those may be because they think it's "cheating", or they're worried about viruses, or they just don't know how to get the mods/don't want to deal with the hassle, etc... When Blizzard sees that a certain addon or type of addon is providing an advantage to the point that guilds are demanding it to raid or that people without it are severely disadvantaged they will often either break it (AVR) or add the basic functionality into the default UI (CTRaid, Outfitter, QuestHelper). Is it wrong for them to say "this addon developer has significantly improved the interface in a way that benefits all players" and then decide to integrate the functionality so that everyone can benefit?
No I mean spending in general, some of which may be in the school system if there is excess there, some of which will be elsewhere. I do find it interesting that you instantly assume I want to slash all the school budgets though...
The media companies have stood up against rampant piracy to protect artistic expression and innovation! This is truly a victory for The American People.
Which is especially amusing considering how little innovation comes out of the large media companies.
Considering Comcast is allowed to advertise a 250GB capped plan as unlimited on national television I'd say our legal system stopped caring about lying years ago...
Since your phrasing is so vague and subjective that the answer could encompass all music promoted that wasn't under copyright or none of it I suspect that, given your displayed bias, you will simply deny any example provided. So why do you expect anyone to waste their time since your mind is obviously made up?
Trust me, looking at how much NJ takes out of my paycheck (and I'm on the lower end of the scale for this area) they should be able to run the state on Income and property taxes alone. Most states have completely unrealistic budgets, rather than adding more tax what needs to be done is trim down the spending.
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Configuring IOS using nothing but the on screen keyboard is something I wouldn't wish on my enemies...
If you admit they are fake why acknowledge their use of the title? I can claim to be President but that doesn't make it so.
I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative.
I am so sick of the ridiculous associations that get thrown around by all sides when politics come up. Yes, clearly all conservatives want no rights so that we can enslave and torture everyone. If that last statement doesn't sound ridiculous to you then god help our country because there's no hope left. We don't even have a clear definition of conservative and liberal, going with the most commonly used definitions neither party in power really fits nicely into being conservative or being liberal yet people throw around overblown stereotypes based on the Republican party for conservatives and equally overblown stereotypes based on the Democratic party for liberals.
Go ahead and flame me now, I'm sure I pissed off someone.
The conservative base is about all we have protecting our freedom at this point.
By ensuring the government is a Christian theocracy and that you should treat your neighbor as yourself? Unless, of course, your neighbor is gay, black, from another country, ...
You're displaying a complete ignorance of actual Christian values here, you should treat your neighbor as yourself. The exceptions you list afterwards are the failings of people, not the teachings of the Bible.
I don't know about you but I don't consider the Republican Party to be very in touch with conservative values, they just happen to be less out of touch with them than the Democratic Party. The Patriot Act was horrible from a freedom and privacy standpoint, two things I consider to be conservative values.
Once again proving how ill-defined liberalism and conservativism are. You're applying your own definition of liberalism to an entire country without knowing how the people in the group you're applying the definition to define the word.
Where a particular organization falls on "the spectrum" is influenced by your own position on said spectrum. If you believe Fox is far, far off the right then that implies that your center point is where most of the liberal media falls on the spectrum. Someone who is very conservative likely sees Fox as the center point. I personally, along with most people I have met and actually discussed politics with believe the center point lies in between Fox and the liberal media.
A large majority of teachers at lower levels have a heavy liberal slant as well.
Intelligent people often put more worth in their education, indeed better education can help nurture intelligence. Given that the vast majority of high school teachers and college professors are heavily liberal-leaning is this really a surprise?
Not sure why this is Flamebait, it's not expressed in the best manner but the statement Parent quoted does imply that liberals are rational and thus conservatives are irrational (which if Parent is considered Flamebait then by the same logic quoted would also be Flamebait).
yeah have a hard time believing that im talking about the same game, despite the developers of the very game have stated that they were going to remove a lot of ccs and cc immunities come cata. apparently, they dont agree with you.
Notice they are removing some of the immunities as well...
I've been playing since the level cap was 60, and I can't figure out if you're just confused and actually playing a different game or just awful at pvp. Other possibility is that you're trolling I suppose.
AoE cc that causes you to lose control of your character: Fears. The classes that have this available to them are: Priest (Instant, on cooldown), Warlock (Cast time, can be made instant with talents, also on cooldown), and Warrior (I believe this is also instant and on cooldown). As with all types of CC Fear is subject to diminishing returns, the basic concept of which is that each time you are affected by a Fear effect it will be shorter, the fourth time you will be immune and continue to be immune until the timer resets. Each category of CC is on a diminishing return timer, they specifically designed it so that you couldn't be CC'd over and over and over with no recourse. There are also abilities and items that can be used to break CC used on you.
The PvP in WoW has definitely become more balanced over time, back at 60 it was basically rock, paper, scissors. Class design was such that one class was the counter to a few classes, and was hard countered by a few others, the few left were mostly on equal footing. Melee classes have traditionally been more reliant on gear but also scaled better with it. They have also been granted more ways to close the gap over the last two expansions and a well geared melee will tear apart a caster if the caster can't keep away from them. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that Blizzard will make plate have less survivability than casters in Cataclysm but I'm not seeing that at all.
TL;DR: Perhaps there are other players who agree with you but having played for quite awhile myself I have a hard time believing we're even talking about the same game.
You may want to read up on what an MMO is. How do you propose they implement a persistent, massively multiplayer online world for LAN play?
They don't ban people for bringing this up, I've seen plenty do it that are still around. The people getting banned are either doing something else to warrant the ban or it's the way they're going about it (furious wall-of-text attacks against blizzard and the "lazy developers who won't do what I want" are not the proper way to bring up an issue).
You may be different but for me the addiction was only bad before I quit the first time (actually sold the account, back when you could ebay them). I was convinced to come back by a few friends shortly before Burning Crusade came out and although I've played on and off since there's no "need" to play like there was before. I just play for my enjoyment, mainly when friends are on and if something comes up or I feel like doing something else I just go do that. My point I guess is that it doesn't need to be an addiction every time.
Not just moose, SpikeMoose!
Building so much into the client is doing it wrong.
Keep in mind that there are people who do not use addons, for a myriad of reasons. Some of those may be because they think it's "cheating", or they're worried about viruses, or they just don't know how to get the mods/don't want to deal with the hassle, etc... When Blizzard sees that a certain addon or type of addon is providing an advantage to the point that guilds are demanding it to raid or that people without it are severely disadvantaged they will often either break it (AVR) or add the basic functionality into the default UI (CTRaid, Outfitter, QuestHelper). Is it wrong for them to say "this addon developer has significantly improved the interface in a way that benefits all players" and then decide to integrate the functionality so that everyone can benefit?
Combat logs. The damage meters evolved from the idea of parsing the combat log information and presenting it in a more helpful way.
Interesting, where did you find the stats on this? I'm curious to read more.
No I mean spending in general, some of which may be in the school system if there is excess there, some of which will be elsewhere. I do find it interesting that you instantly assume I want to slash all the school budgets though...
The media companies have stood up against rampant piracy to protect artistic expression and innovation! This is truly a victory for The American People.
Which is especially amusing considering how little innovation comes out of the large media companies.
Considering Comcast is allowed to advertise a 250GB capped plan as unlimited on national television I'd say our legal system stopped caring about lying years ago...
Since your phrasing is so vague and subjective that the answer could encompass all music promoted that wasn't under copyright or none of it I suspect that, given your displayed bias, you will simply deny any example provided. So why do you expect anyone to waste their time since your mind is obviously made up?
I have actually been forced to pirate an application I bought to get around DRM headaches before...
Trust me, looking at how much NJ takes out of my paycheck (and I'm on the lower end of the scale for this area) they should be able to run the state on Income and property taxes alone. Most states have completely unrealistic budgets, rather than adding more tax what needs to be done is trim down the spending.