Wrath of Dagon
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The myth of STEM shortage : http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myth-of-the-science-and-engineering-shortage/284359/ Propagated by corporations to justify importing cheap foreign labor. Edit : On US destroying itself: http://www.theonion.com/articles/fbi-uncovers-alqaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enj,35788/
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Oh, no, it's GO-TO! http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/04/why-there-will-be-robot-uprising/82783/ And I think I just figured out his name stands for "go to".
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Democracy and rule of law are really two sides of the same coin. You can't have genuine one without genuine the other. -
I'd say there's about as much chance of that happening as of going back to federalism. In fact I heard in Texas the feds are trying to buy up more land, then lease it back to the owner just so they can control its use. And of course the EPA is about to start regulating every back yard puddle. But we can always hope.
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The government controls so much money it's inevitable it becomes corrupt. But that's what happens when the voters want the government to do everything for them. We get the government that we deserve. There is a movement for a new constitutional convention btw, to try to fix some of these problems.
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It's an oligarchy : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10769041/The-US-is-an-oligarchy-study-concludes.html
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That's a bit harsh, I'm sure the argument would be that the EU wouldn't be foreign once they'd joined- though the domination part is pretty accurate... Meh, at least the easterners don't want to force the western parts into a union with Russia that they don't want and only want the right to do so themselves, which puts them a step above the westerners. Who don't have the same consideration when forcing their eastern brethren into an EU process that they don't want. You really think joining the EU is the same as becoming a Russian vassal or breaking up a sovereign country? I guess a lot of European countries missed their big chance to be invaded by SU, just ask East Germans how fun that was. No, at least on the illegal part. The ICJ judgement on Kosovo established that it is not illegal to outright secede under the complete military occupation of an external power. And while it would be nice if '(un)ethical' meant anything in politics, it doesn't. I guess it depends on what qualifies as illegal. I suspect the ICJ decision had a lot more to do with politics than with justice. Edit: Also, it's not necessarily that the secession itself is illegal, it's the actions of a foreign power in facilitating/forcing that secession.
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I'm sure the well-being of the ranchers is at the top of their priorities. Knee-jerk cynicism is no substitute for facts that are mdst likely freely available. Anybody who writes like that is more interested in scoring ideological pionts than in informing their audience, and not to be trusted as a serious source of information. Their putative reason has been stated several times already, including in that article, it was to protect the supposedly endangered turtle, because everyone knows turtles are the favorite food for cows. Of course you're right, the true motives are very easy to determine when dealing with the most transparent administration in history.
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I don't think the Kiev protesters and the separatists are at all comparable. One was fighting against domination by a foreign power, the other is fighting to separate from their internationally recognized state. Mind you, I don't necessarily assume that wanting to secede is illegitimate, it's just that assistance for such movements by foreign powers is both unethical and illegal.
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I'm sure the well-being of the ranchers is at the top of their priorities.
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So, basically, the guy lost a court case back in '98, has had all his attempts to appeal laughed out of court, and he's been defying the court order ever since. The feds haven't quite figured out an effective way to enforce the ruling, though, and when they tried recently, a BLM officer did something dumb and it went viral in wacko-militia circles. Yes, the government has the law on its side, but why is it doing everything possible to harm its own citizens? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/why-you-should-be-sympathetic-toward-cliven-bundy.php
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For those as confused by the situation as I was, here's an explanation :http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/12/The-Saga-of-Bundy-Ranch I guess when the government continually ignores and violates the law pretty soon citizens start to do the same.
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There seems to be a problem with this idea, where would the energy to do all these conversions come from? Unrelated, they're trying to raise $2.5 million to save a little girl : http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/04/14/saving-eliza-4-year-olds-family-fights-to-fund-clinical-trial-to-treat-deadly/
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I thought that was Chaotic Evil.
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I'm sure Putin is licking his chops.
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OK, what was in the past that's better than Western civilization?
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Lots of content added : http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4031.0.html Also pretty screenshots. Warning : Many spoilers.
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I remember there was a similar case in US may be a decade ago, may be more. Except in that case I think the husband did it himself, then claimed they were attacked by criminals.
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Yes, this thread became a lot more readable since Oby got the honor of the first person I put on ignore.
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Yes, but both of those games are terrible. What you posted actually sounds pretty good, if they can exploit the potential and not get sidetracked into tedious dark spawn marathon again.
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Seems like the spirit stuff is only going to interfere with the potentially more interesting human conflicts.
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And become Putin's vassals.
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Got "Pigsie's Perfect 10" DLC for "Enslaved". Pretty fun so far, gameplay is quite different from the main game. Also "Red Thunder".
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OK, I see how that could work. Too bad I overwrote my save before I thought better, so I can't try it now. But thanks.
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I had cannon, I did kill 2/3 of them, but got swamped by the last third. May be the last update they jacked up the number or composition of enemies in that battle, things don't seem to work as well since then, or may be it's something I did, like not completing one of the quests and failing some others. The last battle I lost the first time, then won on retry, so it wasn't too bad.
