Wrath of Dagon

Even a literacy test is illegal in the US.

When US was set up, the idea was not to have any political parties and have candidates run for office strictly as individuals. As soon as that was put into operation, everyone realized what an impractical idea that was, so idea of party identification simply has to be accepted as an inevitable fact. The country at this point is closely split between liberals and conservatives which also follows geographical lines, which is extremely frustrating to both sides. I'm merely proposing a solution which should make everyone happy.

I mean, that you suggest states which are Red should stay Red, presumably. Meaning no more elections in case the Blues get in. No, you stay in the Red superstate, you still have elections as normal. I suppose every 10 years or so you could have a referendum if you want to switch superstates. It's a win-win. As far as what Chris Rock said, I agree to an extent, you have to judge an issue objectively on its merits, but most of the time the evidence is not so clear cut and a lot of predictive assumptions are made, and that's where you have to rely more on ideology as a guide.

You can progress all you want in your blue state, and leave us the **** alone.

Why no elections? I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

We'd be the most successful, productive "country" in the world, I mean even more so than now.

I think the Blue states are really holding us back. I propose we form a Blue super state and a Red super state. Each would have its own congress, supreme court, and governor. There would still be a common president, but he would only deal with defense and foreign policy matters. This would solve a lot of political problems we're encountering, as well as let the Red states reach their full potential.

You mean peachy place Wikipedia made it out to be. They've started as one of the poorest countries of the world, and are improving rapidly, growing faster than even the Asian countries. What else do you want? You think you can just wave a magic wand and make everything great overnight? As far as your other theories, do you have any historical evidence to back them up? OK, your town is a virtual ghost town, but what's the overall rate of unemployment in your country? You think no towns have ever disappeared before? Conditions change, and everyone has to adapt, it's always been that way and always will be.

People will do immoral things unless the government enforces the laws against those things, that's just how it is. I'm not defending anyone who does immoral things, least of all corporations. Laying off people isn't immoral though, that's just part of running a business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana You were saying?

When I came to the US in 1976 all was gloom and doom also, and a man probably even more pathetic than Obama became president. A few years after that we began a 30 year period of uprecedented success and prosperity. Something to think about.

Western corporations moving to third world countries have vastly improved the standard of living there. Would you rather all those people were unemployed and/or starving? As far as pollution, etc, that's the result of corrupt governments in those countries, governments which will probably improve once the higher living standard allows more education and greater sense of social responsibilty.

So are you saying Sweden isn't socialist enought for you? Do you actually have an alternative system that's been shown historically to work? When even the Chinese and Russian communists accept that capitalism is the only way forward, you've got to start questioning your assumptions.

He said "and in Latvia"

That's really hilarious in light of this statement: Those statements don't actually contradict each other at all, and you know it. I didn't say they contradict each other, I meant it's hilarious that you're calling others "apologists".

That's really hilarious in light of this statement:

In my browser, some of it is black and some of it is white. I have the same problem, just highlight it with your cursor.

Btw, may be this was already posted, but should be in this thread: http://dragonage.gulbsoft.org/doku.php/ and this specifically http://dragonage.gulbsoft.org/doku.php/ai#...acter_behaviors

It is viable for a rogue to use both a bow and a dagger?

It's so great they never have layoffs in a communist country. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_..._famine_diaries

This is pretty funny, from RockPaperShotgun, why boycotts don't work: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6062/1258035395841.jpg

It's on the internet, so it must be true.

With checkpoints I prefer health regen, because I really hate it when I run out of health and have to restart a checkpoint or get a checkpoint right when I have no health and a mob spawns right in front of me. If it's save any time, I prefer health packs, so that if I use up too much health (or ammo) in an encounter I reload and do it right. Of course I hate checkpoints to start with. Then there's the original Brothers In Arms, which had no health recovery or checkpoints until you finish the level segment, which worked great but the game was specifically designed for that.

Yeah, and that's just in one quarter.

Health regen works pretty well in Wolfenstein. They just give you less health to compensate.