Guard Dog

Actually it's a sign the breeder is respectable that they are waiting 10 weeks. Puppies usually wean by week 6 but are best socialized in 10-12 weeks. A lot of breeders sell them at 8 weeks but I've found they do better if you wait a little longer before sending them out into the big wide world.

From what I reading on the forums over there it will be later than sooner. So far they have been very tight lipped about what it's got. The only things confirmed are 5e rules and DM control for multiplayer. It has been confirmed there will be a single player campaign but it came from one of the devs in a forum rather than on the "official" side of the site.

Booze is one thing. But if you're going to do stuff like that might as well drop out of college. Why put knowledge in your brain when you're just going to burn it out anyway. Just my $.02

Corn Chowder (made in the crock pot all day today) and grilled cheese.

Location, location, location I guess.

You know it's a sad thing the shape the reservations of the former plains Indians are in. Especially when you compare it to places like the Seminole and especially the Miccosukee Reservations in South Florida. The Seminole Tribe operates a four enormous resort/casinos in Florida so that helps obviously. The Miccosukee reservation at Big Cypress (aside from the tourist areas) looks like any middle class suburb anywhere in Florida. Most of the houses would fit in any gated community in West Dade county. I know the history and real estate is not the same but it still makes you wonder, what are they doing the ones in the Dakotas, Wyoming, & Montana are not? Actually, I'll tell you one thing: Do Not speed in Big Cypress. You WILL get a ticket. I can tell you that from experience. And they are more expensive than Florida

I know there is a need but, a call like that? It's a little too vulture like. I think I'd have been put off too. Besides, if someone told me St. Jude was their beneficiary rather than be rude I'd shake their hand and buy them a beer. Besides, you're young enough that this is not something you have to worry about for a long time.

Yeah no kidding. Good to see you back DN. Wow, first Taks, then Cant, now Deadly Nightshade. This place is starting to class up again.

I tried to come up with something as witty as Shady did. All I came up with is: In before lock!

Shoot, they could have fixed the whole health insurance mess with just one law: Any company can sell policies to anyone in any state. Problems solved. I don't want to derail this thread though.

Yeah, but its packed with tourists. That's what spring breakers are!

Wow Ros, I find your impassioned defense of Iran a little hard to understand. Maybe you're right and they are just harmless little fuzzy kittens and that whole state sponsorship of terrorism is nothing to worry about. But, whatever. Personally I could give a f--k what Iran thinks or does. I'd say the only two ways to deal with them is to wipe them out or leave them alone. Preferably the latter. IMO the US has no business involving itself in, as I stated, anything east of Puerto Rico or west of Attu. Treaty or no they'll either build weapons or they won't. If they do and use them that will probably be the end of them.

I forget who it was but someone said you tell how long someone had been around by what name they knew him as. I thought Dark Raven's were the easiest to spot because she would argue with them.

Migrating? No. Just visiting. I'm sot seeing too many familiar faces from the BI or even Bio boards over there. Although there are plenty of folks familiar with the IE games. I think most came in with NWN Online and games like that.

I spent the entire day playing HOMM 4. I don't even like that game that much. But I was on the campaigns and I just kept going. So far I think HOMM 3 was the high water mark for the series.

Figured out how to get my forum badge to display over there. It was sort of a pain.

Oby hasn't showed up yet. Don't worry, he won't let us down.

(and yes, I know, it's a satire news report but it is damn amusing) If Khamenei ever reads this he'll probably wish he'd thought of it! Then what do you propose? There are a lot of people talking, most of which do not seem to have any knowledge about the process of acquiring nuclear weapons. First off, both the CIA and Mossad agree on the point that Iran does not appear to have a nuclear weapons program going on. If you think you have a more accurate source of intelligence on the matter, please share it with me. Otherwise, you should stop talking about "Iran getting nuclear weapons". These negotiations are about civilian nuclear power, and the logistics behind them, for all we know. Yes, that includes parts which would shorten the time for Iran to build a nuclear bomb, should they choose to do so. But these are things many other countries also have - Romania, Germany, South Korea, formerly Sweden and also Slovakia, the list goes on. Only suddenly did it become important that Iran should not have those facilities. This is a red line which is drawn completely arbitrarily. You could as well talk about how a professorship in subatomic physics can shorten the breakout time for building nukes, and hype that we should "prevent Iran's university program" because that would be also be realistic and viable in Republican la la land. It's ridiculous at this point - not only is the proverbial emperor naked, but he is also rubbing his **** in your face. I vaguely remember Ahmadinejad raging about US politicians still talking about "preventing Iran's nuclear program" when they in 2010 were already at such a point that they could enrich as much uranium as needed for several bombs a year. The best you can do is to accept all civilian installations in good faith and then institute maximum surveillance of these sites under a treaty. It's either war, a treaty, or nothing. If you choose "treaty" over "nothing" the only potential downside is lost prestige for Obama if the treaty fizzles. Thus mindlessly choosing "nothing" over "treaty" is, quote: a perfect example of the modern bureaucratic dysfunction of prestige loss being more important than the expected outcome. Personally I think the notion that Iran is NOT trying to build nuclear weapons is a little naïve. But as for what should be done about it I'm probably the last one on this board to ask because if it were up to me the US would involve itself in nothing east of Puerto Rico and west of Attu Island. If we did get dragged into a conflict outside those line it would end once the target country was utterly destroyed. None of this nation building madness. And US foreign aid would stop cold at both of those lines. If Israel was willing to take out Iranian facilities I would get out of their way and let them. I sure as hell would not threaten to shoot down allied aircraft the way the Idiot-on-the-Potomac did. But he never met an ally he loved or an enemy he hated. If a treaty is useless, and most folks agree it is, why bother? If they di develop weapons and use them, and most agree if they had them they'll use them, then they will be wiped out. That at least would solve that problem. Neville Chamberlain demonstrated for the whole world the value of a deal with the devil yet the same mistakes get made again and again.

Got any experience building fences on rocky, heavily wooded terrain? If so I got some temp work. But I pay in whiskey though.

Bruce, I honestly do not think Obama cares is Iran gets nuclear weapons or not. He just wants to be seen doing "something" about it. It makes no difference to him if the deal he agrees to is weak, non-binding, or if Iran is duplicitous. He just does not want history to say he did nothing. Obama is a perfect example of the modern bureaucratic dysfunction of the process being more important than the outcome.

While I am certainly no stranger to profanity, particularly when building fences or trying to start chainsaws, I find the use of racial slurs to be very crass and "low class". I don't believe I've ever called anyone down for doing it and I've certainly heard it done in conversations both public and private. That is because I do believe the only mouth anyone is responsible for is their own. However I don't think I'd keep the company of someone who does use that kind of language. I don't think I'd hang out with someone who picks their nose and eats the byproduct either for much the same reason. I think the quickest way to discourage this kind of thing is not punishment and suppression but scorn and ridicule. After all, it's been something that gets you into trouble all along and it still happens.

Yeah but I think he'd want it on his own terms.

The NWN campaign was just god-awful. It was the toolset that made that game. I'm hoping for better from this but I'm one of the ones over there hoping for a well thought out and useful toolset. Hopefully one at least as capable as NWNs was.

Now that sucks.

If you guys join the forum over there please use the same names as here. That way I wont insult or speak ill of you over there. Indria & I both did.