And they already do this stuff at varying scales. Want to increase/decrease rainfall? Been doing it since the 60's and probably earlier.
I say climate scientists are a pretentious lot. And while I hate to be considered an unreasonable person with regard to respecting scientific opinion, climate science is a major source of ridiculously dangerous and harmful ways to do the wrong thing and throw a complex poorly understood system awry. Thanks for the Ice Age/Marsification/Greenhouse World you self-righteous boffins!;) but complex organic systems are probably pretty resilient, so perhaps it'll just be a temporary roaring correction til Mama decides to purge the fleas on her back who pretended at trying to fix a system that is self-regulating by doing grossly ridiculous things in the interests of saving us from the over-hyped threat of the generation...!..
I hear tell that from out of Gary's own mouth when asked about D&D 4e, his response was Paper [expletive deleted] Video Game. Unconfirmed.:) I tend to agree though... with that opinion. I like video games too, but it's definitely a light on player crunchiness mode of roleplaying, which suits the method actor gamer types because their tactical senses are abstracted away into various quick and easy card-based recipes for success.
I personally am a git'ard crunchy grognard favoring gamer. 4e is good for casual gamers, and it can be really fun if your DM can step outside of the training wheels that the system presents, which is really true of any pen & paper game. But the creative aspects that a crunchy system provides is ultimately more rewarding to me than having clearly defined class roles and niches to fill in a party. Still, you need healers, thieves, wizards and a good bunch of meat shields to get though most modules...:)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy ftw. Make GURPS easy with templates and play Temple of Elemental Evil all the way through.
3 Gary. and despite his opinion on the quality of the game, he had a very good attitude about why people play, which solidly remained in his thoughts to the end. Sage.
It's the echo chamber of messiah love having elected their progressive leader, they conveniently ignore how much more of a tyrant that the already-tyrannical executive he replaced... the poor, played dupes.
IF it was anything other than a bunch of rat-bastard banking elites who currently control the farce you call todays global financial system and currently benefit from the collapse by driving up inflation (real inflation) you might be taken seriously. But you're just a lover of the status-quo. And a consumer of state propaganda. Bush and Obama are both toady financial system figureheads. Your heroic Progressive and Status-Quo congress critters are freely allowed to legislate their immunity to the insider trading laws everyone else (not in a protected class) has to follow.
If a system continues to do the morally wrong thing more often than not the system is broken and voting for either side isn't always the best option. Libertarian Republicans to me Justin Amash, Rand Paul etc. and to some extent Democrats like Kucinich represent the respective wings of the 'two party duopoly' that are pro-reform. Smaller is better in terms of the idea of a lean design with strictly limited functionality... None is actually the best but that would require lots of responsibility that has atrophied in the society that government invariably parasitizes. Keep government to the level of beneficial bacteria, and not the cancerous tumor that it has become is the general idea...
Sorry, but libertarians don't confuse government with society. Progressive Statists tend to rabidly cling to the idea that society cannot function without a certain level of 'accountable'(meaning accountable to their particular 'right thinking' statist agendas) regulatory beuraucracy. Same goes for 'Conservative' Statists like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, they just reserve their authoritarian zeal for Guns more than Butter.
Libertarians are fine with organic bottom up, non-authoritarian rulemaking. For instance, in my libertarian idea of society, a progressive person or group of them could voluntarily arrange for a complete socialistic health care polity provided they all continue to voluntarily agree to do so. If it worked well, and attracted people outside of the progressive ideologues who want that sort of thing they might even be popular in providing that service to others. My only problem is the reasoning (oh so Bush-Like) that you're either with us or against us. You also ignore that your heroes like Soros and others, tend to reveal their intentions to slowly chip away at the republican constitutional government and put in place a perhaps well intentioned (if you're a moron in terms of intentions), authoritarian police state.
I think it just proves that well-reasoned and idiotic are often found in the same package.
But my gun-enjoying anti-state self does spot a distinguished air of elitist statism in Bruces opinion. Also I resent his method of painting gun enthusiasts and constitutionalists with a distinctly negative brush.
Benito Mussolini was a socialist before he was a fascist. Authoritarian cute fuzzy awesome nice left wingers are still Authoritarians. Assertions that Money corrupts Politics are at a similar level of naivete as saying that Oxygen is responsible for the corruption of your favorite forest by enabling Fire.
Not that Money doesn't exist in a finding of corrupt behavior, it's one of many things that fit into that mix. Money itself is an Amoral entity.
Been at this a long time. So have gaming companies.
My main console gaming is now done on a PS3, if Sony decides to not allow used games on PS4 I won't buy a PS4. XBox has already become irrelevant to me, mainly due to their online services being so overpriced and underfeatured. And microsofts tendency to tie everything to their other products in terms of their infrastructure.
Plus, my UID is lower than all previous.
Instead of computer gaming so much, make time to learn the fine arts of pen and paper gaming, and throw in archery/shooting/hand-to-hand combat and farming. While the plants are growing, gaming is a great way to pass the time, just don't waste all your time doing it.
(Absolute prohibitions and excessive specialization are for insects.)
This sir is exactly my feeling on the subject. I salute you.
Ron Paul vs Dennis Kucinich is a (for the most part, there's always going to be BS and marketing in politics) genuinely healthy political axis. Obama vs Bush is a Reality TV show.
In short, Right Wingers that think government should be an activist one doing a whole bunch of shit on the dime of their taxpayers aren't really Right Wing, those that think they should be in some cases (War and Drugs and War on Drugs is Different, see, honest, but paying for them Educations is a violation of my rights) are actually what most American political types are... Stark Raving Mad Busybody Hypocrites who operate under a delusion of pragmatism in a haze of Prozac tainted water.
It's good that you reveal that your vested interest is in saving your place saving the world for your pharmaceutical corporate employer, keep up the rent seeking. It's good that you're honest about it.
You probably are doing some good, but you are a part of a machine that isn't all good. Just look at your lobbyists, and your public relations expenditures.
Part of the problem *is* that it's not real money.
Overall it's just chits of debt to the federal reserve, if it were real money, you could run out, thus providing a sustainable feedback mechanism which would probably lessen the bad things that "capitalism" is being blamed for in this case, and others.
Corporations themselves rely on the states that define them. Liability shields and incestuous dealings with regulators (revolving doors and their attendant failures of regulatory oversight) abound in many industries.
In this instance you'd think the ridiculously low quality computers would be detected by the frequent audits of the private backers of the endeavor, if those backers had any sense. BP being a multinational plays by all the rules on paper, shit happens, since they just rent the land from the government, the landlord gets to pay the bills / suffer the consequences with little to no recompense when it all goes to hell.
I couldn't understand how she was re-elected. It just reestablishes my belief that the vast majority of people vote party line, and don't really care who is running for their respective party. I know there may be a few people who could be swayed, but in general, I find the philosophy of both parties to be pretty incompatible. I question anyone's sanity who can switch back and forth on a whim.
I couldn't understand how she was re-elected. It just reestablishes my belief that the vast majority of people vote party line, and don't really care who is running for their respective party. I know there may be a few people who could be swayed, but in general, I find the philosophy of both parties to be pretty incompatible. I question anyone's sanity who can switch back and forth on a whim.
Pretty incompatible? Both parties (R and D) gather money from the same corporate entities (that the government regulates) and set the rules of that legislation. The incompatibilities are window dressing for the most part. We are currently experiencing a (numbers for relative ordinal influence, higher being better) Financial Sector (+2) Military Sector (+1) government where before perhaps it was a Military Sector (+2) Financial Sector (+1).
Their bread is buttered by the same people, with a bunch of steadily willfully more ignorant proles to be kept in the dark by sports match-ups and mass media. Oh, and the entertaining fallacy that war is good for the economy. That one pays dividends for years.
Many NeoCons were actually communists and lobby for high regulatory measures and police state law enforcement. Many NeoLiberals are actually communists, and even hold dual party membership as socialists, and value the protective umbrella of high regulatory measures and police state law enforcement.
The Old Right (Buchanan et. al.) had been very critical of him throughout his presidency.
Rush was also critical, but he was an unapologetic supporter of the war and mouthpiece for his buddy Cheney. Rush's show allowed a reasonable amount of dissenting opinion from his guest hosts. Neal Boortz became a Libertari-neocon.
It fell into the previous (AC) posters Orwellian Memory Hole. You did risk it and you got it. In Republican circles you got it especially if you were a Libertarian or Paleo-conservative Republican, and you usually got it from someone who supported Rudolph Giuliani or John McCain.
If you were a liberal you got it if you didn't make sure you were in good with the Israel lobby, but were certainly admired for hating Bush on principle without criticism, because they were on the other "team".
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...
Indeed the Bushbots are still on the whole You Hate America if you don't (unquestioningly) Support The (actions of our interventionist foreign policy)Troops tripe.
Oh, and why exactly are libertarians delusional idiots, exactly? And are you asserting that all of them are? How about classical liberals and liberal democrats? How about parecon supporters? Noam Chomsky folks, and (for a complete non-sequitur) the whole of the bloody Irish and Catholics while we're at it?
As a mostly libertarian delusional idiot, I support the right of all to make a total ass of themselves in public fora, such as this, and my own right to assert that you suck.
Some people tend to call what walks and quacks like a duck, a duck; this because (perhaps wrongly) they assume based on their experience (or sur-experiences from reading of RIAA tactics) that they (RIAA) indeed typically engage in "creative" ways of manipulating public opinion as a matter of course.
For me, I (or I would hope that I) don't tend to play the shill card immediately, I just try to counter the argument.
Ok, well, all of you who think stealing is ok please give me your addresses so I can rob your houses. I mean, since it is ok for you to steal from others it should be ok for others to steal from you and since it is wrong for those you stole from to seek damages or prosecution then I have nothing to fear in stealing from you. Right?
Only if you promise to make a perfect copy of said items so that I still have my stuff, I don't mind. If you develop this replicator technology be sure to patent it so appropriate outrage and ridicule can be engaged in at your expense.
As opposed to being reamed by Republicans for the millions of other things that wouldn't stick? Politics may be about compromise, but it should not be this level of compromise.
My Admiration for Obama deflated greatly after the decision relating to Telecom Immunity, it is one of the reasons I didn't vote for him.
I think he'll be a consensus building leader though, I'm hopeful of that anyway.
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And they already do this stuff at varying scales. Want to increase/decrease rainfall? Been doing it since the 60's and probably earlier.
I say climate scientists are a pretentious lot. And while I hate to be considered an unreasonable person with regard to respecting scientific opinion, climate science is a major source of ridiculously dangerous and harmful ways to do the wrong thing and throw a complex poorly understood system awry. Thanks for the Ice Age/Marsification/Greenhouse World you self-righteous boffins! ;) but complex organic systems are probably pretty resilient, so perhaps it'll just be a temporary roaring correction til Mama decides to purge the fleas on her back who pretended at trying to fix a system that is self-regulating by doing grossly ridiculous things in the interests of saving us from the over-hyped threat of the generation. ..!..
I hear tell that from out of Gary's own mouth when asked about D&D 4e, his response was Paper [expletive deleted] Video Game. Unconfirmed. :) I tend to agree though... with that opinion. I like video games too, but it's definitely a light on player crunchiness mode of roleplaying, which suits the method actor gamer types because their tactical senses are abstracted away into various quick and easy card-based recipes for success.
I personally am a git'ard crunchy grognard favoring gamer. 4e is good for casual gamers, and it can be really fun if your DM can step outside of the training wheels that the system presents, which is really true of any pen & paper game. But the creative aspects that a crunchy system provides is ultimately more rewarding to me than having clearly defined class roles and niches to fill in a party. Still, you need healers, thieves, wizards and a good bunch of meat shields to get though most modules... :)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy ftw. Make GURPS easy with templates and play Temple of Elemental Evil all the way through.
3 Gary. and despite his opinion on the quality of the game, he had a very good attitude about why people play, which solidly remained in his thoughts to the end. Sage.
It'd be Wisdom, 1d20, roll under.
They also got fined 1 Billion dollars in a politically motivated selective prosecution afterward. That'll show them.
It's the echo chamber of messiah love having elected their progressive leader, they conveniently ignore how much more of a tyrant that the already-tyrannical executive he replaced... the poor, played dupes.
IF it was anything other than a bunch of rat-bastard banking elites who currently control the farce you call todays global financial system and currently benefit from the collapse by driving up inflation (real inflation) you might be taken seriously. But you're just a lover of the status-quo. And a consumer of state propaganda. Bush and Obama are both toady financial system figureheads. Your heroic Progressive and Status-Quo congress critters are freely allowed to legislate their immunity to the insider trading laws everyone else (not in a protected class) has to follow.
If a system continues to do the morally wrong thing more often than not the system is broken and voting for either side isn't always the best option. Libertarian Republicans to me Justin Amash, Rand Paul etc. and to some extent Democrats like Kucinich represent the respective wings of the 'two party duopoly' that are pro-reform. Smaller is better in terms of the idea of a lean design with strictly limited functionality... None is actually the best but that would require lots of responsibility that has atrophied in the society that government invariably parasitizes. Keep government to the level of beneficial bacteria, and not the cancerous tumor that it has become is the general idea...
Sorry, but libertarians don't confuse government with society. Progressive Statists tend to rabidly cling to the idea that society cannot function without a certain level of 'accountable'(meaning accountable to their particular 'right thinking' statist agendas) regulatory beuraucracy. Same goes for 'Conservative' Statists like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, they just reserve their authoritarian zeal for Guns more than Butter.
Libertarians are fine with organic bottom up, non-authoritarian rulemaking. For instance, in my libertarian idea of society, a progressive person or group of them could voluntarily arrange for a complete socialistic health care polity provided they all continue to voluntarily agree to do so. If it worked well, and attracted people outside of the progressive ideologues who want that sort of thing they might even be popular in providing that service to others. My only problem is the reasoning (oh so Bush-Like) that you're either with us or against us. You also ignore that your heroes like Soros and others, tend to reveal their intentions to slowly chip away at the republican constitutional government and put in place a perhaps well intentioned (if you're a moron in terms of intentions), authoritarian police state.
I think it just proves that well-reasoned and idiotic are often found in the same package.
But my gun-enjoying anti-state self does spot a distinguished air of elitist statism in Bruces opinion. Also I resent his method of painting gun enthusiasts and constitutionalists with a distinctly negative brush.
Sorry, look up Rent Seeking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Benito Mussolini was a socialist before he was a fascist. Authoritarian cute fuzzy awesome nice left wingers are still Authoritarians. Assertions that Money corrupts Politics are at a similar level of naivete as saying that Oxygen is responsible for the corruption of your favorite forest by enabling Fire.
Not that Money doesn't exist in a finding of corrupt behavior, it's one of many things that fit into that mix. Money itself is an Amoral entity.
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Been at this a long time. So have gaming companies.
My main console gaming is now done on a PS3, if Sony decides to not allow used games on PS4 I won't buy a PS4. XBox has already become irrelevant to me, mainly due to their online services being so overpriced and underfeatured. And microsofts tendency to tie everything to their other products in terms of their infrastructure.
Plus, my UID is lower than all previous.
Instead of computer gaming so much, make time to learn the fine arts of pen and paper gaming, and throw in archery/shooting/hand-to-hand combat and farming. While the plants are growing, gaming is a great way to pass the time, just don't waste all your time doing it.
(Absolute prohibitions and excessive specialization are for insects.)
Velociraptors are clearly greenish, thereby being Gallente ships and therefore should fit blasters... not enough power grid for high DPS with lasers.
Blah blah blah eve.
This sir is exactly my feeling on the subject. I salute you.
Ron Paul vs Dennis Kucinich is a (for the most part, there's always going to be BS and marketing in politics) genuinely healthy political axis. Obama vs Bush is a Reality TV show.
Left wing crazy? I thought that was you!?!
In short, Right Wingers that think government should be an activist one doing a whole bunch of shit on the dime of their taxpayers aren't really Right Wing, those that think they should be in some cases (War and Drugs and War on Drugs is Different, see, honest, but paying for them Educations is a violation of my rights) are actually what most American political types are... Stark Raving Mad Busybody Hypocrites who operate under a delusion of pragmatism in a haze of Prozac tainted water.
It's good that you reveal that your vested interest is in saving your place saving the world for your pharmaceutical corporate employer, keep up the rent seeking. It's good that you're honest about it.
You probably are doing some good, but you are a part of a machine that isn't all good. Just look at your lobbyists, and your public relations expenditures.
Welcome the New boss, same as the Old boss, only, more "hip".
Pretty good summary, I have to say, of mainstream 'liberals' and 'conservatives'.
I consider myself a Classical Liberal.
Distinction without difference, or at least too little difference to matter.
We all have the British Foreign Office to thank for most of this anyway.
Part of the problem *is* that it's not real money.
Overall it's just chits of debt to the federal reserve, if it were real money, you could run out, thus providing a sustainable feedback mechanism which would probably lessen the bad things that "capitalism" is being blamed for in this case, and others.
Corporations themselves rely on the states that define them. Liability shields and incestuous dealings with regulators (revolving doors and their attendant failures of regulatory oversight) abound in many industries.
In this instance you'd think the ridiculously low quality computers would be detected by the frequent audits of the private backers of the endeavor, if those backers had any sense. BP being a multinational plays by all the rules on paper, shit happens, since they just rent the land from the government, the landlord gets to pay the bills / suffer the consequences with little to no recompense when it all goes to hell.
I couldn't understand how she was re-elected. It just reestablishes my belief that the vast majority of people vote party line, and don't really care who is running for their respective party. I know there may be a few people who could be swayed, but in general, I find the philosophy of both parties to be pretty incompatible. I question anyone's sanity who can switch back and forth on a whim.
I couldn't understand how she was re-elected. It just reestablishes my belief that the vast majority of people vote party line, and don't really care who is running for their respective party. I know there may be a few people who could be swayed, but in general, I find the philosophy of both parties to be pretty incompatible. I question anyone's sanity who can switch back and forth on a whim.
Pretty incompatible? Both parties (R and D) gather money from the same corporate entities (that the government regulates) and set the rules of that legislation. The incompatibilities are window dressing for the most part. We are currently experiencing a (numbers for relative ordinal influence, higher being better) Financial Sector (+2) Military Sector (+1) government where before perhaps it was a Military Sector (+2) Financial Sector (+1).
Their bread is buttered by the same people, with a bunch of steadily willfully more ignorant proles to be kept in the dark by sports match-ups and mass media. Oh, and the entertaining fallacy that war is good for the economy. That one pays dividends for years.
Many NeoCons were actually communists and lobby for high regulatory measures and police state law enforcement. Many NeoLiberals are actually communists, and even hold dual party membership as socialists, and value the protective umbrella of high regulatory measures and police state law enforcement.
Protectionist steel tariffs was an early one.
The Old Right (Buchanan et. al.) had been very critical of him throughout his presidency.
Rush was also critical, but he was an unapologetic supporter of the war and mouthpiece for his buddy Cheney. Rush's show allowed a reasonable amount of dissenting opinion from his guest hosts. Neal Boortz became a Libertari-neocon.
It fell into the previous (AC) posters Orwellian Memory Hole. You did risk it and you got it. In Republican circles you got it especially if you were a Libertarian or Paleo-conservative Republican, and you usually got it from someone who supported Rudolph Giuliani or John McCain.
If you were a liberal you got it if you didn't make sure you were in good with the Israel lobby, but were certainly admired for hating Bush on principle without criticism, because they were on the other "team".
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...
Indeed the Bushbots are still on the whole You Hate America if you don't (unquestioningly) Support The (actions of our interventionist foreign policy)Troops tripe.
Oh, and why exactly are libertarians delusional idiots, exactly? And are you asserting that all of them are? How about classical liberals and liberal democrats? How about parecon supporters? Noam Chomsky folks, and (for a complete non-sequitur) the whole of the bloody Irish and Catholics while we're at it?
As a mostly libertarian delusional idiot, I support the right of all to make a total ass of themselves in public fora, such as this, and my own right to assert that you suck.
(Kiss Me I'm Irish)
Some people tend to call what walks and quacks like a duck, a duck; this because (perhaps wrongly) they assume based on their experience (or sur-experiences from reading of RIAA tactics) that they (RIAA) indeed typically engage in "creative" ways of manipulating public opinion as a matter of course.
For me, I (or I would hope that I) don't tend to play the shill card immediately, I just try to counter the argument.
Ok, well, all of you who think stealing is ok please give me your addresses so I can rob your houses. I mean, since it is ok for you to steal from others it should be ok for others to steal from you and since it is wrong for those you stole from to seek damages or prosecution then I have nothing to fear in stealing from you. Right?
Only if you promise to make a perfect copy of said items so that I still have my stuff, I don't mind. If you develop this replicator technology be sure to patent it so appropriate outrage and ridicule can be engaged in at your expense.
As opposed to being reamed by Republicans for the millions of other things that wouldn't stick? Politics may be about compromise, but it should not be this level of compromise.
My Admiration for Obama deflated greatly after the decision relating to Telecom Immunity, it is one of the reasons I didn't vote for him.
I think he'll be a consensus building leader though, I'm hopeful of that anyway.