That's been "legal" since Bush 43's term. Where have you been?
Horrible? Horrible that a non-GOP president has that power now? You wouldn't believe how many thought twice about their permissiveness on this issue when I asked them if it would still be OK for a Democrat president to have that kind of power.
Damn partisan morons. No one should have that kind of power.
If you want to teach Creationism in school, then place the curriculum in a philosophy class, or Religion class if so desired. Keep it far, far away from Biology class.
He lost that legal battle a few weeks ago. The sad part of the matter is that the Legislature simply adopted Pawlenty's unallotments to 'balance' the budget.
I think the DFL simply went along with it because it is nearly impossible to work compromise out of Pawlenty, whose idea of budget balance means cut, cut, cut, cut some more. They'll wait until the new governor shows up in November.
When he's on the campaign trail I'm sure he will crow about how he held the line against taxes in MN. Well sure, my state taxes didn't go up, but my property taxes sure did, because of the massive cuts in Local Government Aid.
You're right, Carlson and Quie were good governors. Hell, I even liked Ventura when he in, much better than this yahoo...
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3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public. 4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).
Sorry, there are too many stupid, panicky types out there to make me agree to that.
The farmer will make several passes over that acre during the year: tilling the ground, planting, couple passes for weed control, harvest, plowing. Add or subtract a pass or two depending on the crop.
I was playing a game of Master of Orion 2 with a custom race (+50 attack, +20 defense, +10 ground attack, warlord, -50 pop growth, don't remember the rest). Game was going swimmingly, my empire taking over one side of the galaxy, and the Psilons getting the other half. War broke out, and I found myself in a pickle.
My ships were more powerful, and in a standup fight my fleets would annihilate the Psilons even against 10 to 1 odds. Problem was, I was foolish enough not to research Jump Gates, so I was not able to defend my colonies against his 7 deep doomstar fleets. He would never jump into a system that I had enough ships to defend, and as such my empire began to crumble. I finally was down to my last system (a really nice one), and they were finally forced to attack a well-armed fleet.
It was my ~35 ships, a mix of mostly Titans and Battleships, with a half dozen Doom Stars and even a couple Cruisers, against a 7 line deep armada of at least half Psilon doomstars. One of my cruisers went first, as it had been around a long time, refitted a dozen times. It was armed with 6 autofire disruptors and Achilles targeting. My heart soared as that one little ship fired 6 times, destroying a Psilon doomstar with each shot. Being a Warlord with +50 attack, all my ships went first, and that massive fleet became nothing more than wreckage.
Twice more the Psilons smashed their huge fleets into my meatgrinder before the tide began to slacken. Several more turns went by, and I was able to field an expeditionary force to recapture my worlds. Unfortunately I could not hold the systems, as I was never able to get the Jump Gate tech. Then I started simply destroying the Psilon colonies, but they kept popping back up as soon as I would leave.
I soon tired of this, so I added one more ship to my attack fleet: a stellar converter equipped doomstar. After a long and bloody campaign, the galaxy was rubbled, with only three systems with any inhabitable planets: my new home system, Orion, and the last Psilon colony, which had survived the destruction by being caught in a time warp. I bombed that planet to the last Psilon, and blockaded the system. I won the game by popping through a Dimensional Portal and kicking the Antarans. Good fun.
It's a power popular with PVPers called 'Teleport Foe'. There are very few defenses against it. If he was repeatedly using TP Foe to drop villains in front of the police bots guarding the hero base then he was guilty of being a griefer and an asshole. The police bots are there to keep the villains out of the hero base, not as a firing squad. I agree that the design is stupid, as anyone knows that if there is some way to turn a design feature into a way to 'cheat' then they invariably will.
I am guessing that an earlier poster was correct in it being on the Virtue server, as you would likely find people on there doing RP, it being one of the few areas you can have both hero and villains together (most areas are faction-only) at that time. I'm guessing that he was doing his asshattery before the introduction of the Rikti War Zone co-op zone and the PVP retooling.
Nowhere in the article did I see that he was so 1337 that groups of other PVPers couldn't defeat him, especially a group of them. If they did defeat him, he didn't lose anything and could go right back out and keep doing it.
It's morons like him that keep me in the PVE zones. I'm know that I can be killed by another player in a PVP zone, its no big deal, its part of the game. But PVP makes it too easy for some asshole to screw with you with no repercussions on their part, and that's what this guy was doing.
Is the huge stain splashed on the open source community by PJ and her gang of thugs at Groklaw. Bullying and intimidation of the IT press and individuals was all you ever got from Groklaw... well, that, and a lot of amateur legal advice.
Please give a specific, verifiable example?
Watch it now, AC might pull out Blepp's briefcase on you.
I'll sign this... they're never going to get rid of ALL farmers (I don't think they really mind it that much, just the ones that find and exploit the serious loopholes). Just accept that and give the farmers what they want, and then give the rest of us a way to sift through all their crap missions for something with a decent story.
You're overblowing the situation... Posi mentioned *possible* sanctions against players who used *exploits*. The devs could generally care less about people that simply farm. They've always been diligent about nerfing the missions that makes things *too* easy, usually by making the mission timed so it can't be kept and restarted over and over and over again.
As far as treating the players as adults, well, if they would act in a manner appropriate for adults I would agree with you. Many of the players do, but I see a large fraction that act like a bunch of entitled assholes. They'll seek out the exploits that give them a bigger e-peen, and then wail and gnash their teeth when the devs take it away from them.
But I agree, their failure was in not assuming that the assholes would try and exploit the new system.
Yes, you are one of those 'hard to please' purist type Trekkies.
If anything, the swordfighting scene WAS canon that was kept: Sulu was an excellent fencer in TOS. And I assume that the character you were speaking of was the one Kirk found with Scotty? I'm sorry, not even close.
And the plot resembling "Year In Hell"? OK, if every plot involving time travelers changing the timestream to create a new alternate is somehow "almost" exactly the same, then YIH copied ST4TVH, STTNG, and even TOS. The story isn't the act of making a new timestream, it about what happens from that point forward, which was the whole fucking point behind the reboot.
The characters were fine... you couldn't focus on ALL of them in a two hour movie, plus the main characters in TOS always were Kirk and Spock. Don't worry, this film will spawn at least one if not more sequels.
Destroy canon? Completely rewriting the story? Did we watch the same movie? The whole fucking point was to start with NEW canon, without completely invalidating the existing canon. Absolutely nothing they did in this film in any way invalidates what came before, and in fact honors it in the best way possible. So go ahead and watch your reruns of TNG and DS9 (all good stuff BTW) and leave the enjoying of something fresh and new to me and most everyone else.
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That's been "legal" since Bush 43's term. Where have you been?
Horrible? Horrible that a non-GOP president has that power now? You wouldn't believe how many thought twice about their permissiveness on this issue when I asked them if it would still be OK for a Democrat president to have that kind of power.
Damn partisan morons. No one should have that kind of power.
I'm not so sure I'd want the organs of someone suffering from ALS.
If you want to teach Creationism in school, then place the curriculum in a philosophy class, or Religion class if so desired. Keep it far, far away from Biology class.
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For those that aren't privy to American Football. Apparently some guy with the number 85, renamed himself 85.
A couple of us sneaked a look at his personnel file the day he arrived. It's his IQ.
So you're not going to vote Pawlenty/Bachman in '12?
As much as I dislike Pawlenty, Bachmann is worthy of true contempt. She is completely and utterly batshit fucking insane.
He lost that legal battle a few weeks ago. The sad part of the matter is that the Legislature simply adopted Pawlenty's unallotments to 'balance' the budget.
I think the DFL simply went along with it because it is nearly impossible to work compromise out of Pawlenty, whose idea of budget balance means cut, cut, cut, cut some more. They'll wait until the new governor shows up in November.
When he's on the campaign trail I'm sure he will crow about how he held the line against taxes in MN. Well sure, my state taxes didn't go up, but my property taxes sure did, because of the massive cuts in Local Government Aid.
You're right, Carlson and Quie were good governors. Hell, I even liked Ventura when he in, much better than this yahoo...
Puritanism: the nagging fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
Playing devil's advocate...
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Bah... I trump you all with the Infinite Double Facepalm!
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See, that's what would be rebooted. The short lifespan and the execs would be booted. With a bladed boot. Into a volcano.
Even if we don't restart the show, I'd like to see them get kicked into a volcano.
No, nothing so elaborate. Simply toss them into Serenity's intake manifold. *shred*
It's 30-minute a week mission to make suborbital space as much of a tourist destination as the Caribbean...
Ditto.
Amateur... if you're going to fix it, fix it right. And not break stuff in the process (it's = it is).
3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public.
4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).
Sorry, there are too many stupid, panicky types out there to make me agree to that.
Man, was she hot in that movie... *wont be standing up for at least 90 seconds*
I don't want one position, I want ALL positions!
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The farmer will make several passes over that acre during the year: tilling the ground, planting, couple passes for weed control, harvest, plowing. Add or subtract a pass or two depending on the crop.
This crisis could have been prevented in 2005, via Republican-led
If only Republicans had controlled Congress and the White House in 2005.
QFT - had the real Republican Party been in power we'd probably be fine. Instead, we had a bunch of idiot neo-cons in charge.
I was playing a game of Master of Orion 2 with a custom race (+50 attack, +20 defense, +10 ground attack, warlord, -50 pop growth, don't remember the rest). Game was going swimmingly, my empire taking over one side of the galaxy, and the Psilons getting the other half. War broke out, and I found myself in a pickle.
My ships were more powerful, and in a standup fight my fleets would annihilate the Psilons even against 10 to 1 odds. Problem was, I was foolish enough not to research Jump Gates, so I was not able to defend my colonies against his 7 deep doomstar fleets. He would never jump into a system that I had enough ships to defend, and as such my empire began to crumble. I finally was down to my last system (a really nice one), and they were finally forced to attack a well-armed fleet.
It was my ~35 ships, a mix of mostly Titans and Battleships, with a half dozen Doom Stars and even a couple Cruisers, against a 7 line deep armada of at least half Psilon doomstars. One of my cruisers went first, as it had been around a long time, refitted a dozen times. It was armed with 6 autofire disruptors and Achilles targeting. My heart soared as that one little ship fired 6 times, destroying a Psilon doomstar with each shot. Being a Warlord with +50 attack, all my ships went first, and that massive fleet became nothing more than wreckage.
Twice more the Psilons smashed their huge fleets into my meatgrinder before the tide began to slacken. Several more turns went by, and I was able to field an expeditionary force to recapture my worlds. Unfortunately I could not hold the systems, as I was never able to get the Jump Gate tech. Then I started simply destroying the Psilon colonies, but they kept popping back up as soon as I would leave.
I soon tired of this, so I added one more ship to my attack fleet: a stellar converter equipped doomstar. After a long and bloody campaign, the galaxy was rubbled, with only three systems with any inhabitable planets: my new home system, Orion, and the last Psilon colony, which had survived the destruction by being caught in a time warp. I bombed that planet to the last Psilon, and blockaded the system. I won the game by popping through a Dimensional Portal and kicking the Antarans. Good fun.
I do play the game, and find it very believable.
It's a power popular with PVPers called 'Teleport Foe'. There are very few defenses against it. If he was repeatedly using TP Foe to drop villains in front of the police bots guarding the hero base then he was guilty of being a griefer and an asshole. The police bots are there to keep the villains out of the hero base, not as a firing squad. I agree that the design is stupid, as anyone knows that if there is some way to turn a design feature into a way to 'cheat' then they invariably will.
I am guessing that an earlier poster was correct in it being on the Virtue server, as you would likely find people on there doing RP, it being one of the few areas you can have both hero and villains together (most areas are faction-only) at that time. I'm guessing that he was doing his asshattery before the introduction of the Rikti War Zone co-op zone and the PVP retooling.
Nowhere in the article did I see that he was so 1337 that groups of other PVPers couldn't defeat him, especially a group of them. If they did defeat him, he didn't lose anything and could go right back out and keep doing it.
It's morons like him that keep me in the PVE zones. I'm know that I can be killed by another player in a PVP zone, its no big deal, its part of the game. But PVP makes it too easy for some asshole to screw with you with no repercussions on their part, and that's what this guy was doing.
So Hitler was essentially a PHB?
Is the huge stain splashed on the open source community by PJ and her gang of thugs at Groklaw. Bullying and intimidation of the IT press and individuals was all you ever got from Groklaw... well, that, and a lot of amateur legal advice.
Please give a specific, verifiable example?
Watch it now, AC might pull out Blepp's briefcase on you.
You do realize that God will promptly vanish in a puff of logic if they ever do that.
I'll sign this... they're never going to get rid of ALL farmers (I don't think they really mind it that much, just the ones that find and exploit the serious loopholes). Just accept that and give the farmers what they want, and then give the rest of us a way to sift through all their crap missions for something with a decent story.
You're overblowing the situation... Posi mentioned *possible* sanctions against players who used *exploits*. The devs could generally care less about people that simply farm. They've always been diligent about nerfing the missions that makes things *too* easy, usually by making the mission timed so it can't be kept and restarted over and over and over again.
As far as treating the players as adults, well, if they would act in a manner appropriate for adults I would agree with you. Many of the players do, but I see a large fraction that act like a bunch of entitled assholes. They'll seek out the exploits that give them a bigger e-peen, and then wail and gnash their teeth when the devs take it away from them.
But I agree, their failure was in not assuming that the assholes would try and exploit the new system.
Yes, you are one of those 'hard to please' purist type Trekkies.
If anything, the swordfighting scene WAS canon that was kept: Sulu was an excellent fencer in TOS. And I assume that the character you were speaking of was the one Kirk found with Scotty? I'm sorry, not even close.
And the plot resembling "Year In Hell"? OK, if every plot involving time travelers changing the timestream to create a new alternate is somehow "almost" exactly the same, then YIH copied ST4TVH, STTNG, and even TOS. The story isn't the act of making a new timestream, it about what happens from that point forward, which was the whole fucking point behind the reboot.
The characters were fine... you couldn't focus on ALL of them in a two hour movie, plus the main characters in TOS always were Kirk and Spock. Don't worry, this film will spawn at least one if not more sequels.
Destroy canon? Completely rewriting the story? Did we watch the same movie? The whole fucking point was to start with NEW canon, without completely invalidating the existing canon. Absolutely nothing they did in this film in any way invalidates what came before, and in fact honors it in the best way possible. So go ahead and watch your reruns of TNG and DS9 (all good stuff BTW) and leave the enjoying of something fresh and new to me and most everyone else.