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He is, it's been posted. I was just happy you didn't try to name him peter pan

Sombody set microsoft up the bomb, and he did it without a law degree!

I think the reason the teachers are a little antsy about saying the pledge is becasue they are children of the fifties. Also you have to remember the same thing happens at sports games. and in locker rooms before sports games and you are looked down upon if you don't join in. I was lucky I lived in sacremento, after I moved to EDH my teachers seemed to stop caring and I found my self wondering why I wasn't saying the pledge every morning.

at least it's not peter pan

not utterly false at all... i clearly pointed out my experience, and called it as such. also, you never said there was an issue with under god, only the hand on the heart thing, which is not the same issue. be careful what you choose to argue... taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My apologies,I said somthing in haste and with a flared temper. It's been changed.

first, the hand over the heart thing is a little different than under god, but either way... perhaps 25 years ago things were different, i agree. there was probably more pressure in the 50s for sure (particularly since the communism scare was in full force). but like i said, even in my grade schools (23-31 years ago, politically mixed area) there was never any pressure. today, it is almost non-existent other than the danged press generated by newdow and co. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm ninteen. not thirty. My first through 3rd grade education took place in the ninteys. This observation is not utterly false rather it is not necessairly true. I should say it's not so much the pressure of force that the teachers and the student's put on you it is the pressure of expectation. it is expected that you will say the pledge in uniformity without any devaition because that's how it's written. We have kids in the local districts (the ones affected by the ruling) who say that to say the pledge is to talk about the "heart of america" and to say that that is not warped is to be either blind or ignorant. So we are teaching the children that being under god (not allah not Kishrima, not even Odin or Gaia, just the christian one) is at the heart of america. And I was using the Hand over heart thing to demonstrate the lvl of pressure put on a child to conform to his peers.

Diablo had horrid combat (point click, point click, wash rince repeat)

well then... I think your dads wrong. and thats all I'm going to say before I shoot my mouth off.

to taks statement about requiring kids to say under god in the pledge. It's not so much as required as it is thought to be required back in First grade I was a cub scout so I saluted instead of put my hand over my heart. Immediatly 3/4 of the class started to say that was wrong and the teacher said that I adhered to a different religion. Then next day I put my hand over my heart like a good little boy. Its more coercive because we are told to say it, not ordered but just told, when we are little. and if we deviate from the path laid down by our teachers we are ridiculed and hurassed by the other students and the teacher does nothing except to say you have different beliefs. Now if that's not bias I don't know what is. So while we are not forced by law to say the pledge we feel forced by religion and the fact that sombody told us to. and yes, sombody in power telling you what to do has a massive influence upon your actions. I don't care what Nuremburg trials said. Science has proven it. (can't remember the expiraments name but it's been done) I don't mind the fact that it's on the coin because so few people actually look closly at a coin, but the pledge is memorized from day one and thus changes your psyche in ways we don't even know.

that she will.

he could have been Julia NW....

Arrrr Laddie ye just don know when ya ought ta keep thins to yarself do ya? Wench! MORE ALE!

If one were to intentionally try to screw over a company that worked on your product then one would have the other companies trying as best to get away. eventually everything you could put out would have to be made by yourself.

The forum guidelines may be found here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> SS I'm asking about his english not his mod style. that doesn't fall under the posted rules.

Pirates seems kinda like Morrowind. More people have modded it than have actually played the origional. But it felt kinda rushed in the basic storyline. If they had either made it more a sandbox game without a storyline or if they had made it more a set of missions than sandbox it wouldn't have faltered. they tired to splice the two into a single game and did a fairly good job, just not good enough to capture the attn of most of the public. and some of the Romance minigames are HARD!

You? So you claim I am multiple moderators in one? Didn't think so... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wait two things Battle, One what the heck does that statement mean, and two How did you get multipule mods out of that statement.

No no it's the mormons that go to heaven... don't you watch south park?

but what about buddha? or perhaps Kishrima? Bhuddists got excluded because they don't even believe in god. Islam got excluded because america doesn't like Islam at all (horrible argument I know). Hindu got excluded because they believe in multipul gods that are an expression of the collective souls etc etc... now how does that make the pledge all inclusive?

I prefer games that are paced well not longer not shorter. If a game is paced correctly then people will be happy to replay it over and over.

No it doesn't make one religion dominate over all in america but it does make a religion by exclusion. The way I see it, because you are making reference only to god, not allah or gods or whatever, you are therefor excluding the parties that don't refer to their god as god. or rather you are excluding the religions that have named their god (Allah, Yahweh, Satanists... you get the picture)

He's probably referring to the fact that Lord British seems like he's an Englander

why... WHY MUST WE NECROPOST DON JAGUAR!?

That's just jack thompson not the rest of the public. there's a slight difference there... And wouldn't this attempt to cause things that were user created to be the fault of the company cause marvel to win against City of Hero's? I mean if you look at the main reason marvel was trying to shut down COH was because users could create clones of the various Marvel, DC, manga, and other characters. Wouldn't holding Rockstar responsible for "Hot Coffee" be the same thing? And why has nobody gone after God of War? that had a sex minigame in it at the very beginning... no user created garbage either.

Appearently Economic experts are looking at our games to understand how we purchace and act outside the realm of cyber. There's even a site dedicated to this study http://www.gameusd.com/news0730.htm and it got into Gamespot... why anyone would want to purchase influence in COH is beyond me, there's always sombody giving away about ten million in the newbie zone...

because the Mona model was actually used in game during the shower scene. And because everyone wants to kill GTA. not necessairly rockstar just GTA.