Walsingham
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What I can't be bothered to read are your apocalypse fantasies. I understood quite clearly that you're arguing an economic downturn will cripple the military capability of the US. Your argument is - again - a fantasy. The USA has an immense economy and military. Cuts to US military spending could be absorbed on an enormous scale and it might just reduce their crisis response to only two World crises at once, rather than three. Even if spending cuts reduced the regular US military to the level of China it would be at least one or two generations before anyone else caught up. The US economy can't possibly stay down for that long. The country has a strong economy built into its _geography_. You may be stuck in your attic dreaming of rivers of blood for a wee while yet. -
Get a grip on yourself. Leaving aside how WW3 would happen, I'm more interested in why you sound so bloody happy about it.
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Those guys are starting to sound less crazy to me and that probably isn't a good sign either. Ultimately I don't believe you're mental, so I wouldn't worry too much. Just remember that if it turns out you were right don't arse about taking potshots, and try to not to target civilians with IEDs. As a favour to me.
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You got me, at least. That's true. Thinking about what you've written - which was very lucid - I'd say the point is that we've been given an easy alternate to back. I mean I've used Linux for work and study, but I was never going to use it for the majority of my work - MS Office is hell's standard - nor for gaming. Whereas an easy to use, cheaper, friendlier PS4 is just sitting there begging me to switch.
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Keep em coming. It's like having a vacation by proxy.
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Further point: Iran is a complete mess of different religions, ethnicities, and chopped every which way by mountains. I'm pretty convinced their centralising tendencies arise from trying to hold together a country that is basically a wet cake.
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Well, I'm sure Agiel would agree that Iran's far from a basket case like North Korea. If only because people genuinely expect to be able to vote. But I agree that there's an element of letting the candidates win. I don't see anything sinister in a move towards moderation. Cynical, certainly. I have a degree of faith that provided reforms happen slowly that Iran could move quietly and slowly towards greater civic freedoms. IMO the real problem isn't the clerics, it's the Revolutionary Guards Council. They have huge power, undiminished by all their proxies and shady deals. Sooner or later a real moderate would be obliged to rein them in, and I just can't see that working.
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Obviously, Rouhani has taken up a tough job, but most of the media I read regards him as a moderate, and it seems like good news. I'm pleased for all the smart educated Iranians I've met over the years. They really deserved better than Ahmedinejad.
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I'm quite hungover, and a bit drunk, but I have to say, GD: you sound a lot like a militia guy I interviewed in the 1990s. Not a healthy sign.
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GB why don't you come live in South Africa? You can bring Tommy and we don't have the money to afford programs like Prism so you won't have your privacy compromised? I have to say I think GD would ****ing love South Africa. He's got trade skills. He could buy a big bit of land. Great food, great wine, decent beer. Plus if you get angry you can walk out, climb a tree, and punch a giraffe.
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I think you want to keep that informality and originality in at least some of the forum. But any good thread will need summary and usable outputs. To be usable you will either need some bloody genius bespoke standard output - which would be bragging rights - or you need an industry standard. The sane recommendation would be to check with some of the big games companies you think might take things off you, and ask them what output they'd like. On the second point I mean your forum needs a bit of horizon scanning tech wise and to have discussions specifically around those new techs. Viz this business with immersive movement-linked FPS at E3. That's been on the cards for at least eight years, but how will it shape our expectations of gaming?
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That picture of your kid smiling in a coffin is awesome. I've been trying to work out if I can turn it into a block colour image and put it on a t-shirt.
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I think you've identified an interesting area. If I understand you correctly your idea is to orient on marshalling demand in more meaningful ways. I've been having ideas in this respect already, but suggest you consider a couple of points: 1. Your technical discussion needs to be dealt with in a way that is meaningful to designers. A bunch of neat ideas just won't cut it. 2. Because there's going to be an inevitable and extended delay between discussion in your community and the industry moving on them you will need to look ahead in technology terms. Your conclusions have to be relevant in 3-5 years. Not today.
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Yeah, and last year the score was 1000+ to zero in terms of approvals to rejections, by that court, and there are zero counter arguments heard, ie the presentations are unopposed. The first part indicates it's a rubber stamp, the second shows it's explicitly designed to be a rubber stamp. I'd have to agree that this looks weird. A control system that never functions is either running a very naturally regulated engine or it's borked. Do you know what the guidelines are for them rejecting a request?
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I'm always mildly amused that people who argue words are more powerful than guns don't want more control over words.
