economic freedoms are given to the Chinese people first, political will follow.
Perhaps that's why they they want to keep Tibet so badly. They need a really high place to stand so they can see those political freedoms comming waaaaaay off in the distance there.
He'll expand the power of the Executive Branch just like all the others have.
Why? Because you say so?
In our modern history, only 2 administrations have seriously tried to expand the powers of the Executive branch; Nixon and GWB. If you look even closer, you'll see that Cheney and Rumsfeld were both working in the White House in the aftermath of the Nixon administration.
A little research will show you numerous reports of how much those two resented the shrinking of Presiential power during that period, and their resolve to reverse the situation if given a chance.
A little more research will show you that all these executive power grabs the last 7 years seem to have actually eminated from the Vice President's office.
Its pretty clear that personality is the driving factor here. We can do a lot for the country simply by electing better people.
Don't buy into the Right's argument that everyone is as bad as them. They are only saying that because its their only gambit left.
Knowing the government, they will get around this by creating a 'No-Sue' list and making it even harder to change your name."
Clever, but I doubt it. They'll just do what this administration does every time they get sued: They'll claim that they can't provide any information for National Security reasons.
Interesting bit of selective statistics. Arizona is a desert state, where there isn't much point to living outside of a city. Its not very representitive of the US as a whole. We have far more agricultural states, where near universal coverage is more of a problem.
Now let's see what Wikipedia has to say about your figures for the Netherlands:
However, municipality sizes alone do not reflect the degree of urbanisation in the Netherlands comprehensively. Many of the larger Dutch cities are the cores of a significantly larger urban agglomeration.
But let's take your (bad) example at face value. It turns out Arizona is about 300K square kilometers in area, while the Netherlands is only 41K square KM. Arizona has a population of 6 million while the Netherlands has a population of 16 million. If you could own either Arizona or the Netherland's cable company, which would you rather have?
Sounds an awful lot like the way rogues (combo points)/warriors (rage) work in WoW.
No, its not. If you are looking for a mechanic like WoW Rogues have, you'd want to play a Black Orc (sorta), except they are tanks. I know of nothing in WoW that works like WAR shammies (and archmages).
Well, I guess its sorta like a half combo of rage and combo points, except that the skills are divided in half and each half works like a finisher for the other half. And each half can be done by itself, unlike a finsher.
This involves completing massive public quests within the city such as burning down buildings, killing champions (elite mobs), ransacking libraries, overtaking the sewer system, etc.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the phrase "public quest", its a technical term meaning "fun as all hell". I waste hours of good leveling time running those things over and over again.
OK, OK, vague definition. Think like a continually ongoing raid, but non-instanced, and anyone wandering by can join in on a whim and leave whenever they want to. Tabula Rasa had a few of these, and I had trouble getting myself to leave those areas. I hope this becomes an industry trend now.
And since they just lifted the NDA I can openly talk about this.
Have they? I thought it was just "imminent"
Yes, the game has some rough edges, but damn its got a lot of content.
I could be wrong, but as near as I can tell, each of the 6 races has its own entirely different quest line, clear from 1 to the cap. That's a depressing amount of content. Depressing because there's no way I can come close to experiencing it all.
Until I see about the lifting first hand, I won't say much, but the greenskins are a total blast to play. I'm going to have to take a week off of work or something on release...
Personally, they made the game require to much hardware for most my friends to buy it, and not being able to play LAN makes it less fun.
That's the first criticism I've seen that jibes with my experience. I probably would have bought 2 more copies (for my wife and son's computers) if it could have run on either of them. I keep my system up to date, and even I had to go out and buy a second Gig of RAM to get it to run well.
If we could play together it would have gotten played more too. As it is I still play a bit, but only solo when I don't have time to play one of the MMORPGs.
From what I understand, there were a lot of bugs and problems with the game, to the point where it wasn't worth picking up.
I really don't understand this talk. I picked up the preorder to get in the beta for $10, so I played it from beta. It definitely had technical problems in beta, and they weren't really fixed until the first patch *after* release. So I can see where it got itself a bit of a bad name. It also required more RAM than any other game out at the time (1.5Gig on Vista).
However, the game itself *always* rocked. Once the lag problems and crash bugs settled down, it became an awesome game to play. Its the most fun game I own ATM. If there's another action-oriented RPG out that's better, please don't tell me about it. I need my job.:-)
It also does a lot of innovative things. In particular, I'd love to see the rest of the genre pick up its context-sensitive potion and skill use. It takes out a lot of annoying control fumbling that I always go through in other RPGs.
Personally I think their business model was just flawed. It worked OK for a traditional game, but if you want to pay to keep servers up and do incremental development, you really need incremental income from everyone. They had some extras you could pay monthly for (eg: being a guild master), but not enough to make it worth it for most people. Certianly not enough for me.
Whereas against democrats he tends to be more "come on, guys, I was counting on you and then you sucked."
Frankly, I think that's more damning. There are a lot of people in this country who would far rather vote for someone whom they politicaly disagree with, but who at least has guts and principles they are willing to stand up for. If a person truly believes the country is being hurt, and isn't fighting tooth and nail to stop it, how can we possibly entrust them with the reigns of power?
This is why Democrats keep loosing elections, even though polls show they hold the majority positions on most issues.
The Daily Show has been experimenting with making fun of Democrats
Where have you been? They've been making fun of Democrats the entire 6 years I've been watching them.
If they have seemed to be concentrating on Repubs mostly in that time, well you have to admit that Repubs had control of all 3 branches of the government for most of that time. The Dems just weren't all that important, no matter how stupid they were being.
One of the reasons the Fox propaganda channel's Daily Show clone was pulled was that the Daily Show was actually doing a far better job of ridiculing Democrats than Fox was.
If you think that GWB is stupid and incompetent...He's neither. He's corrupt and power-hungry.
I think we are both right here.:-)
However, I could forgive the latter. The former is the real problem.
And yes, almost any politician would have taken advantage of that situation
That's just flat out wrong. History tells us it is wrong, because there have been much better excuses to do what he's done in the last 200 years.
I know a lot of Reps like to spread this story these days. I think the alternative, that people should have voted for someone w/o the magic "(R)" after his name, is just too horrible for them to contemplate.
I guess I should also give up reading then too, as that's what has told me that we've been through far worse situations than this in our history, without giving up nearly as much of our freedoms. There was a time when there were frigging enemy subs running up our rivers sinking traffic. We went through several actual insurrections, including one that resulted in the death of over a million Americans. This little terrorism thing we are going through is *nothing* by comparison. We weren't perfect through those times, but never were we nearly as bad as this.
If you read up on how this all happened, you'll find that it was pushed from the top, in the (incorrect) belief that it would somehow help things.
So you are asking me to believe that *anyone* would have been the stupidest most incompetent leader in our history if put in the presidency over the last 8 years? Believe that if it makes you feel better, but I'm not buying it.
And how is that different from every other election?
If you honestly don't see a qualitative difference between the idiocy of the current administration and (just to keep it non-partisan) that of his father's, you really should give up both voting and handling sharp objects.
These companies have no problem running their fibre through some farmer's land but they don't want to give him any of the benefits.
Its not that one farmer they really have a problem with. Its the rest of the farmers who are nowhere near their one line they had to run between the big population centers.
Despite the fact where I used to live isn't that far from the nearest broadband and it's an upcoming area with a lot of rich people moving in I don't think they offer any sort of broadband even now.
Actually, its a myth that being rich will get you more coverage. Rich people tend to have large lots, and thus require much more wiring per person to reach. The cable companies actually make *way* more money off of apartments and tenaments, where they can get hundreds of customers for the same amount of wiring.
Let's look at a similar situation in history. A renegade province of Mexico rebelled and kicked the Mexican government out. A strong ally to the North took them in and waged war with the Mexican military, killing many and eventually taking much more land. I'm talking about Texas.
This is only similar if you are casting *Mexico* in the role of Russia here. Texas was an internationally accepted part of the USA at the time.
It should also be mentioned that the war was was generally percieved in the USA at the time as an immoral and cynical act on the USA's part. The main motivator of it was really the slave states' desire for more southern territory to pack the Senate with, to balance out all the new "free" northern states comming online. They were deathly afraid that the free states would get a 2/3 majority in the senate and change the constitution to outlaw slavery.
Comparing *anything* to the Mexican - American war isn't exactly being kind.
Be careful how you state this. If Georgia has truly invaded its own territory, then it follows that Saakashvili bombed his own people. Saddam was hanged for this.
...by his own people. After a trial. What's your point? If he actually committed crimes against humanity like Saddam, and the lawful and popularly-elected government of Georgia wants to prosecute the dude at some point in the future, that's their business, not ours. They can fry the guy for all I care.
Now if a large country with a military strong enough to threaten most of Europe starts invading its smaller neighbors with no notice to anyone and on the slimmest of pretextes, that most assuredly is an international issue.
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Close. It's hard work often pays off over time, but laziness always pays off now.
Perhaps that's why they they want to keep Tibet so badly. They need a really high place to stand so they can see those political freedoms comming waaaaaay off in the distance there.
Why? Because you say so?
In our modern history, only 2 administrations have seriously tried to expand the powers of the Executive branch; Nixon and GWB. If you look even closer, you'll see that Cheney and Rumsfeld were both working in the White House in the aftermath of the Nixon administration.
A little research will show you numerous reports of how much those two resented the shrinking of Presiential power during that period, and their resolve to reverse the situation if given a chance.
A little more research will show you that all these executive power grabs the last 7 years seem to have actually eminated from the Vice President's office.
Its pretty clear that personality is the driving factor here. We can do a lot for the country simply by electing better people.
Don't buy into the Right's argument that everyone is as bad as them. They are only saying that because its their only gambit left.
You haven't seen a hijak since we started it have you?
See! Incontravertable proof it is working. We should probably add a few millon more names to it, to be even safer...
I was, but I didn't.
Oh well..
Clever, but I doubt it. They'll just do what this administration does every time they get sued: They'll claim that they can't provide any information for National Security reasons.
Interesting bit of selective statistics. Arizona is a desert state, where there isn't much point to living outside of a city. Its not very representitive of the US as a whole. We have far more agricultural states, where near universal coverage is more of a problem.
Now let's see what Wikipedia has to say about your figures for the Netherlands:
But let's take your (bad) example at face value. It turns out Arizona is about 300K square kilometers in area, while the Netherlands is only 41K square KM. Arizona has a population of 6 million while the Netherlands has a population of 16 million. If you could own either Arizona or the Netherland's cable company, which would you rather have?
No, its not. If you are looking for a mechanic like WoW Rogues have, you'd want to play a Black Orc (sorta), except they are tanks. I know of nothing in WoW that works like WAR shammies (and archmages).
Well, I guess its sorta like a half combo of rage and combo points, except that the skills are divided in half and each half works like a finisher for the other half. And each half can be done by itself, unlike a finsher.
Yeah...just like rogues. %-(
Yeah, I got that. My confusion probably comes from the fact that I have no clue what an "Elder" is, and if I qualify.
I suppose that probably means I am not one. :-)
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the phrase "public quest", its a technical term meaning "fun as all hell". I waste hours of good leveling time running those things over and over again.
OK, OK, vague definition. Think like a continually ongoing raid, but non-instanced, and anyone wandering by can join in on a whim and leave whenever they want to. Tabula Rasa had a few of these, and I had trouble getting myself to leave those areas. I hope this becomes an industry trend now.
I like my first definition better. :-)
Have they? I thought it was just "imminent"
I could be wrong, but as near as I can tell, each of the 6 races has its own entirely different quest line, clear from 1 to the cap. That's a depressing amount of content. Depressing because there's no way I can come close to experiencing it all.
Until I see about the lifting first hand, I won't say much, but the greenskins are a total blast to play. I'm going to have to take a week off of work or something on release...
That's the first criticism I've seen that jibes with my experience. I probably would have bought 2 more copies (for my wife and son's computers) if it could have run on either of them. I keep my system up to date, and even I had to go out and buy a second Gig of RAM to get it to run well.
If we could play together it would have gotten played more too. As it is I still play a bit, but only solo when I don't have time to play one of the MMORPGs.
I really don't understand this talk. I picked up the preorder to get in the beta for $10, so I played it from beta. It definitely had technical problems in beta, and they weren't really fixed until the first patch *after* release. So I can see where it got itself a bit of a bad name. It also required more RAM than any other game out at the time (1.5Gig on Vista).
However, the game itself *always* rocked. Once the lag problems and crash bugs settled down, it became an awesome game to play. Its the most fun game I own ATM. If there's another action-oriented RPG out that's better, please don't tell me about it. I need my job. :-)
It also does a lot of innovative things. In particular, I'd love to see the rest of the genre pick up its context-sensitive potion and skill use. It takes out a lot of annoying control fumbling that I always go through in other RPGs.
Personally I think their business model was just flawed. It worked OK for a traditional game, but if you want to pay to keep servers up and do incremental development, you really need incremental income from everyone. They had some extras you could pay monthly for (eg: being a guild master), but not enough to make it worth it for most people. Certianly not enough for me.
Frankly, I think that's more damning. There are a lot of people in this country who would far rather vote for someone whom they politicaly disagree with, but who at least has guts and principles they are willing to stand up for. If a person truly believes the country is being hurt, and isn't fighting tooth and nail to stop it, how can we possibly entrust them with the reigns of power?
This is why Democrats keep loosing elections, even though polls show they hold the majority positions on most issues.
Where have you been? They've been making fun of Democrats the entire 6 years I've been watching them.
If they have seemed to be concentrating on Repubs mostly in that time, well you have to admit that Repubs had control of all 3 branches of the government for most of that time. The Dems just weren't all that important, no matter how stupid they were being.
One of the reasons the Fox propaganda channel's Daily Show clone was pulled was that the Daily Show was actually doing a far better job of ridiculing Democrats than Fox was.
I think we are both right here. :-)
However, I could forgive the latter. The former is the real problem.
That's just flat out wrong. History tells us it is wrong, because there have been much better excuses to do what he's done in the last 200 years.
I know a lot of Reps like to spread this story these days. I think the alternative, that people should have voted for someone w/o the magic "(R)" after his name, is just too horrible for them to contemplate.
I guess I should also give up reading then too, as that's what has told me that we've been through far worse situations than this in our history, without giving up nearly as much of our freedoms. There was a time when there were frigging enemy subs running up our rivers sinking traffic. We went through several actual insurrections, including one that resulted in the death of over a million Americans. This little terrorism thing we are going through is *nothing* by comparison. We weren't perfect through those times, but never were we nearly as bad as this.
If you read up on how this all happened, you'll find that it was pushed from the top, in the (incorrect) belief that it would somehow help things.
So you are asking me to believe that *anyone* would have been the stupidest most incompetent leader in our history if put in the presidency over the last 8 years? Believe that if it makes you feel better, but I'm not buying it.
If you honestly don't see a qualitative difference between the idiocy of the current administration and (just to keep it non-partisan) that of his father's, you really should give up both voting and handling sharp objects.
Close. It was written by a political hack.
That it was part of a board game is entirely incidental.
I was going to disagree, but this statement saves your whole post.
That's kinda long-winded. How about an "Idiots Elected" card instead?
Its not that one farmer they really have a problem with. Its the rest of the farmers who are nowhere near their one line they had to run between the big population centers.
Actually, its a myth that being rich will get you more coverage. Rich people tend to have large lots, and thus require much more wiring per person to reach. The cable companies actually make *way* more money off of apartments and tenaments, where they can get hundreds of customers for the same amount of wiring.
This is only similar if you are casting *Mexico* in the role of Russia here. Texas was an internationally accepted part of the USA at the time.
It should also be mentioned that the war was was generally percieved in the USA at the time as an immoral and cynical act on the USA's part. The main motivator of it was really the slave states' desire for more southern territory to pack the Senate with, to balance out all the new "free" northern states comming online. They were deathly afraid that the free states would get a 2/3 majority in the senate and change the constitution to outlaw slavery.
Comparing *anything* to the Mexican - American war isn't exactly being kind.
Now if a large country with a military strong enough to threaten most of Europe starts invading its smaller neighbors with no notice to anyone and on the slimmest of pretextes, that most assuredly is an international issue.
Coincidentally, Sony just announced their latest game, "Working for Nintendo", due out in November.