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Darth InSidious
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Well, for starters we could sell the right to execute the Labour front bench to the highest bidder, and then sell the rights to televise it in a similar manner. That would raise some cash.
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Well, you at least succeeded in making me look (thanks for wasting my time, BTW), but you're either very mistaken or lying.
If you did get it legitimately, then why not ask them about your problem over at their forms?
Quite. I just went through the website top-to-bottom, and unless I'm missing something, there ain't no link.
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On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four grey walls, and four grey towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
The Lady of Shalott.
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You wouldn't pay it at the end of year, silly WoD. You pay the tax when at the time of purchase. If you by a game for $60 you would pay the 5% tax right there. If you decide to buy a $2000 computer or expensive jewelry you would pay the 12% tax at the point of purchase. Of course non-taxed items such as milk, meats, and the such would remain untaxed.
So... scaled VAT as a replacement for income tax?
Yep.
Only time you pay taxes is when you pay for a taxable item.
There is one small problem, which is that this will not be adopted universally; the reason this is a problem is that:
a) You are not an island-state;
b) It is not 1600, so even if you were, sea-crossing is quite safe.
What I mean is that people will simply cross the state border to buy anything of size - i.e., the stuff on which you'd make the bulkier amounts of tax.
There are probably other problems, too, like the resultant higher prices in your state, but I'm not an economist, and can't be bothered to work them out.
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You wouldn't pay it at the end of year, silly WoD. You pay the tax when at the time of purchase. If you by a game for $60 you would pay the 5% tax right there. If you decide to buy a $2000 computer or expensive jewelry you would pay the 12% tax at the point of purchase. Of course non-taxed items such as milk, meats, and the such would remain untaxed.
So... scaled VAT as a replacement for income tax?
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It is a pretty hard game. I remember playing it on a friend's PS1 a long time ago.
This. I remember I gave up on the demo in frustration.
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"Speak an Iroquoi language, do you? Did your ancestors? Did they ask permission to settle? Thought not.
Ah, the old 'everyone stole the land from the Native Americans so you should let everyone ignore the laws of the land now no matter how much it hurts the country' argument. Who cares, we all just stole the land! Real solid argument.
Erm, no. More the old "You have no right to complain about people not blending into the local culture when your own ancestors refused to do anything of the sort" argument.
"What it does is make your immigration policies a case of absolutely astonishing hypocrisy."Riiiight, so changing the immigration policies as time changes and the population # change = hypocrisy. Yeah, wanting a higher standard as time goes on is a terrible thing.
See above.
"Well, no. But then that doesn't make any sense at all. You were saying about not learning the language...?"One of the requirements to becoming a US citizien is "The ability to read, write and speak ordinary English unless they are physically unable to do so due to a disability such as being blind or deaf, or suffer from a developmental disability or mental impairment". Again, how is that trodding on another's culture? Part of what makes a country work and run is the ability to communicate. I don't remember saying they need to give up their heathen traditions, culture or language.
I didn't say it was "trodding" at all; but I think it's pretty pathetic to complain about illegal immigrants not learning the language when you, it seems, are totally incapable of forming the present participle of the verb "to tread". Pots, kettles, colour-schemes.
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Also kinda funny how your entire country is build around mass immigration and how you, as one of the only countries in the world, has managed to make that something extremely positive. Something I would be very proud of if I was american. It's kinda sad to see that the 10th+ generation of immigrants won't allow others to do what their ancestors did.
Pretty sure my ancestors didn't sneak across the border illegally, refuse to learn the language and become burdens to the country. That is an insult to any family, hispanic or otherwise that came here legally to make something of themseves
Speak an Iroquoi language, do you? Did your ancestors? Did they ask permission to settle?
Thought not.
but I don't see how that is a free pass for illegal aliens.What it does is make your immigration policies a case of absolutely astonishing hypocrisy.
Also, I have to make this crystal clear: NO ONE IS TRODING ON ANY CULTURE.Well, no. But then that doesn't make any sense at all. You were saying about not learning the language...?
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I think SG1 suffered whenever effects were neccessary. All the spaceships looked silly. The carpenters could knock up an interior, but the 3d was painful to watch.
Same experience with Babylon 5 which was recommended to me. The time of pointy ears, rubber face masks, and homebrew 3d is simply past.
Never watched Doctor Who?
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Ovid's Metamorphoses*
*In Latin
Ouch. If its anywhere near as bad as the Aenead then thats one of the most painful things imaginable.
Pomposity is pretty well in-built with classical literature, but few if any texts I can think of - the letters of Plinius Secundus included - are quite as horrendous as Aeneid X.
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Doesn't everyone want to at least control that which they cannot understand?
Erm... I may be a peculiar and old-fashioned character, but personally I prefer to study what I don't understand. This has the added bonus of making it no longer not-understood.
Nevertheless, sciences and maths should be banned from schools as boring, while the Classics should be made compulsory.
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Batman for the Game Boy. Fun little side-scroller. Pretty tough, too.
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I thought SoZ was fun. It didn't bowl me over, but I enjoy trading games and that kind of thing. The biggest problem I had with it was the loadscreens every five minutes, but I just ran away from most of the encounters.
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They're not fixing the influence system, IIRC. There are one or two other things it's not doing, like the GenoHaradan, which they're producing a special add-on of their own for, with their own plot interpolations.
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Asking if "there's any mythology" in Metamorphoses is sort of like asking if you can put water in a bath.
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Maybe you should write long rants on an internet message board about how a game you haven't yet paid for is not yet released and how that's intolerable because you think the employees of a privately traded company 'owe' you something.
I mean, it'll get you somewhere, right?
It's not like he'd be the first to do something in that vein...
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Kinda shaming confession here, but... I've never finished Prince of Persia. I usually get killed by a guard.
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games is probable older than human species.
You know very good i was talking about computer/console games... and they are definately not older than human species
doesn't matter what you were talking 'bout. games has been 'round probable back before cro magnon, and games ain't gotten the benefit of doubt as an art form in all that time. makes harder for computer/console games to somehow change.
HA! Good Fun!
All right, then.
Backgammon: is it art?
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Replaying Jade Empire.
The game hasn't aged well. Tiny levels, blocky heads, and lots of unnecessary blahblah. Not that I don't like wordy games though, but listening all time to dawnstar's doubts and whining can get pretty tiresome.
Jade Empire's dialogue isn't good. I actually think there's a kind of decline in quality with Bioware from KotOR onward. Maybe it's from BG/II onward, but I've not played them. Personally I thought JE's combat was fairly fun, and the plot twist was actually pretty unexpected, IMO. Well, that
you'd die
was, anyway.
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Not much new info, but it is interesting about Obsidian's preferred board games. No love for Crate Escape?
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Just for the record, the two covers:
Anyone wanting any of the Fallouts should get them from Good Old Games and stop supporting the putrid husk of a store that is Gamestop & Co.From the link I posted:
Bethesda also takes issue with Interplay's licensing of Fallout games to digital distribution services Good Old Games (GOG), GameTap and Steam, which Interplay was said never to have sought approval or permission for. Basically, Bethesda takes issue with pretty much everything Interplay seems to be doing with the pre-Fallout 3 releases, believing they cannibalize sales of Fallout 3. -
IIRC, Bethesda are also suing over the Fallout Trilogy being sold, because the name is "confusingly similar" to Fallout 3... if you have an IQ of about 4.
Edit: Link
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I rather like one of the reviews for Uranium ore:
I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.That said, some of the best reviews are the "one-star" ratings on books. If you have a favourite book, look for the one-star review on Amazon. I can guarantee there'll be at least one gem there. Take this one of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One:
I didn't like The Loved One at all. The reason why I didn't like it was because I didn't like the plot, the theme, or the characters. To show why I didn't like it, I'm going to compare it with a book that was really good and that I liked that is called The White Mountains. The plot of The White Mountains had action, excitement, and adventure. The story is about teenagers that traveled through Europe in search of a colony that would help the fight against aliens that had invaded earth. The plot of The Loved One is that Dennis Barlow falls in love with Aimee Thanatogenos, who is already in love with Mr. Joyboy. But then she falls in love with Dennis. At the end, she can't decide who she loves more, Dennis or Mr. Joyboy, so she kills herself. To me the theme of The Love One just seemed to be just dumb. The theme of The White Mountains is that teenagers can be responsible, and we could be the future leaders and the fate of the world could lay in our hands. Now,the theme of The Loved One is that adults can be silly and that they are only thinking about themselves and doing nothing to help our society. Last, the characters in The Loved One never seemed to be real. The characters in The White Mountains showed how strong they were by going across Europe to find the colony while the aliens were trying to kill them. The characters in The Loved One just fought over a woman who they both loved. But Aimee couldn't choose between Dennis and Mr. Joyboy, so she killed herslef. These were just some of the resons why I didn't like the book, The Loved One.There are others of the same book complaining it has too many adjectives. Gotta love Amazon.
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I don't think that's a fair breakdown for Mass Effect by any means,
Don't you? I can think of three moments of actual C&C in the entire game. Two of which were on the same (penultimate) planet, and the third was the five-minutes-before-the-end "choose your final cutscene" choice.
but Alpha Protocol definitely doesn't have any good guy/bad guy points going on. The player choices influence how individual characters think of Mike Thorton, and the story reacts to the situations that result.Thanks for the info. What I'm particularly curious to know, though, is the extent of the reaction - will some "main" missions only be available from NPC Bob, while an alternate can be sought from Agent Joe, or would this option be taking the same mission from different angles?
Well, Mass Effect was those three options plus the fairly static "tell me about yourself and the world" tree.As, indeed, were Jade Empire and KotOR, with the minor exception that the other two didn't actually bore me.
Britain's budget deficit
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I like how we're on the subject of the American economy. Again.
It's like some of you have a monomania about your own country...