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  1. This kind of thing is bothersome, I mean try making more money and one wouldn't have to act that way. A person can't afford a time sink probably cant afford the time... blah blah blah. /rant
  2. I thought conspiracies came from America. Actually I messed up, the correct quote would be grows not comes. IMO those boards have a lot of posters that are enthusiastic or oversold to the point its easy to suspect shills.
  3. Must be all those state and federal employees Di was talking about clogging the roads.
  4. I don't consider the DLC angles a negative at all, some form of price point wrangling is in order. I am leaning to appreciating the games as a service model or some form of pay as you go, I don't know but there is plenty of room for improvement and different models.
  5. It would be even more interesting to see how much money CA is actually making off of this. Because one thing is certain, if they were actually losing 10's of billions of dollars each year they would build a wall the size of China's on their southern border.. it would be cheaper you know.. And if a politician could actually save that much money by doing something that simple I assure you s/he would've been all over it decades ago. This is shades of grey from a 'she wanted it' or victim gained from the crime in some unquantifiable way sort of justification. The real strong point Hurlshot is making is the perception and relevance of the law, its virtually unenforcible. This thread becoming all immigration I agree its a problem, but this is like identifying the back breaker in a straw pile. On the bold line i don't feel like going tick for tack with bridge to nowhere and semi private airport stories but there is no great reason to be assured of something like that... The situation is caused by gross mismanagement.
  6. I have a hard time getting over how SZ and Grunt are about comicly ultraviolent and otherwise paper thin on any interesting character angles so far... I have been casually looking forward to ME2 but most of the info available seems rather bland.
  7. Asol

    polanski

    http://www.generationrescue.org/ Yes, she's an anti-vaccionist, what's your point? Was taking a guess at your point. Sifting more polanski stories than I intended already and the lists I've seen don't have Jenny McCarthy as a signatory, but do have others one might have higher expectations on. From your response I have to assume I missed a sound byte or blip somewhere but why would it be more relevant than someone like Tilda Swinton or other higher profile. The autism stuff is pretty much all Jenny McCarthy is known for these days.
  8. Asol

    polanski

    Like giving a **** about this guy doing time or not. http://www.generationrescue.org/
  9. Fido is excellent. I also thought highly of Tokyo Zombie.
  10. Asol

    Books

    Splitting free time on Frankenstien from the library and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress my first reading of Robert A.Heinlein. I'm glad I picked it up.
  11. This Subject Zero would be more appreciable to me with the maniac aspect played down... I guess some polarization is the goal with this character.
  12. To above. You people refers to 'you people' being multiple people directly responding or seeming to, i am not going to reply-quote x people to death. Between the similar entitled attitudes of both no designation is/was necessary. Anyway to the rather strong play that there is an argument I am dis-servicing; Walsingham ask's taks what is so facist or irrational to pay for another person health care compared to their security etc. Gaurd Dog said the constitution requires federal participation in security but does not requrie and potentially is prohibitive to federal administration of health-care. A reasonable paraphrase; this sounds like a cop out to say it is so because the constitution says so. Then inquire if (1)UHC would be supported by him/us/whoever now if it was written in, and (2) saying you have not used police specifically to address a crime for you, so is it not the same as a health care criticism to say they are benefiting off your dollar, whereas the system could just as easily be set up in a way that people pay the police themselves to investigate crimes? Is this not a fair paraphrase? Let me not be forced to pay for law coverage for others, essentially claiming the anti-UHC is playing the cheapskate take my ball and go home argument. Assuming its affordable and the money is there and everything, possibly its just that we just want to be stingy with it and let people suffer just because we are keen on it or something. The care is going to be good and available etc, and its going to be a money saving move. To (1) potentially yes but is that what you really wanted? It is a pointless what if, we would be different people with different common values being encouraged, the other potential document would not be this constituition and would create a different society with different mores/people/government/etc. If one didn't have specific lessons and principles available in a household up bringing or whatever it would take a much longer in life to acquire it. Meh point, don't feel like I am dis-servicing you not to pursue that. Addictions and dependencies can take forever to throw off, and often never happen, if I was raised from the dole or owed it my life or livelihood it would take longer to get away from it. To (2) What the constitution essentially gives us is a democratic republic, the frame work for the rule of law and so on. This is essentially the operating system for society, what individuals, government entities or corporations can or can't do as well as fairly much how they do it. The point of saying this that your point is real dubious that you never use investigations and others who do are benefiting unjustly from your tax buck, which is just the cheap jab at UHC opposition. The problem is that major thrust of law enforcement, security and police work is largely preventative in scope. A cop will pretend to give a **** about whether he gets your wallet back. Jail and economic repercussions deter the would be thief from swiping it, not that a cop is going to come get it. The point is you dollar is working persistently for you whether you have a court date, called 911 or canada equivalent or see a cop sleeping behind a billboard or something like that. On the other hand the preventative aspects of containing health costs and maintaining general health are the personal responsibilities of the individuals. Your Cop wallet fetch is not equable to Mr Robinson's heart surgury, not in cost, necessity or effects... or anything imo. "To me it seems quite parallel. Help clear it up for me. With the exception of the constitution being explicit (I'm assuming so, I am not really all that familiar with the US constitution)." Don't consider the parallel to be there. The law service in society fosters and corrects behaviours that create a productive environment, you are essentially paying to have transactional and communicative protocols the fair field in general. But is your job not to burn though cigarettes and cheeseburgers and perpetuate your person in reasonable health, should you incur the need of a heart surjury that is tragic but its not governments job to help you buy a product or service, when they have already done so much to enable you right? At least not in the general scope and character of the document in there is nothing that indicates any intent to equalize for behavior or (mis)fortune in anyway. In my interpretation it is 100% counter which is why I mentioned anti-health behaviour to begin with. You're straying from rights here to entitlements. The governments job is not to take care of you or to make me take care of your regardless of what I chose to do. This is the problem. What if UHC had been in the constitution? Might as well sew a wing to an aligator, it has no relationship to the rest of the work...
  13. How does it answer your question? The point is you framed an inappropriate comparison between providing rights in an ordered society and funding public health. The necessity and benefit can't even begin to compare and you also implied you didn't benefit from or use law enforcement services, and seemed to imply the constitution and other national frame work is completely arbitrary and healthcare would have been an ideal and a right if medicine existed then as it does in its current state... There is a big leap made there. As far as the rest of your thing goes, yes it is exactly greed and entitlement. If for example I refinance(or extract my home equity) my home to put in a pool or whatever bells and whistles I can weasel out of the bank, does it matter if I say these things are for my guests to make me a better host? That doesn't make it noble or any kind of a service to my children when I am creating nothing for them but debt they didn't ask for and can't avoid. I may be thick but not thick enough to jump through hoops and cheer for Obama to buy a unicorn with tax dollars like you people. The only reason you have the gusto for it is that you expect it to cost you peanuts on an individual level. 'At least' Gifted understands working to meet his own needs which is nothing to sneeze at by some of you. A misconception on some minor maths gives you no ground to look down on his opinions whatsoever. At least he is responsible, as far as I am concerned in present economic, financial and environmental conditions responsibility is the only sign of intelligence.
  14. Enjoyable polite society and anything one can consider 'their rights' within comes from rule and enforcement of law. You have most likely relied on it for every aspect of your life. Are we going to pretend their is not a gulf here being jumped in terms of necessity or benefit? It is just greed and entitlement being encouraged here, personal health is a personal responsibility. Breaking 100 is an achievement is not a right, further you don't get surguries and cancer meds because you had to eat McDonalds and smoke cigarettes everyday and so on... The world is not here to be your opium den people, imo this is nothing but greed and lazyness voting for freebies and pretending future generations won't be paying through crushing inflation and other disasters. Its hard to find nicer or more charming ways to make these points and the topic is unmotivating. The perspective of entitlement is so thick.
  15. Did the paladin give auras for resists etc.... maybe other buffs too.
  16. You can instead shoot heroin into your bloodstream, it would be better then WoW. This is true, your better off not spending any time with it.
  17. Unfortunate subject... Blizzon wow promo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmcHwEn0m7U troll druid and other content speculated above confirmed.
  18. http://www.wow.com/2009/08/14/world-of-war...y-mmo-champion/ Gah, troll druid is like an arrow in my chest. I probably won't be able to resist making a 39er twink for a little while. Diablo is also sounding good, I want to try the Hoodoo shaman.
  19. I learned everything I could get about scientology after watching Meet the Spartans, I wondered why a kill Tom Cruise joke at the end was funny so I started googling. It took two weeks before I could stop watching and reading everything I could find various testimonials and depositions etc. It probably haunted me for another month at least. That was the first and only time I have actually felt 'haunted' or truely disturbed by anything I chose to look into. Really weird stuff and unfortunate for most of the participants. Edit also I saw a scientology commercial on local television about a week ago. They are closing in...
  20. I don't know. Probably someone in Ethiopia or the Congo. Happy now? Did you buy the computer used? If so, you are morally "in the clear," though you still probably have a connection to African children. You make this rationalization for fun? This is like using 'god made dirt so dirt don't hurt' logic to eat from the floor or the trash with rose glasses on. If you are hungry and recieve a steak on welfare are you then one to form the opinion that you are somehow not complicient in the slaughter when you eat it? You use the product you participate in the demand. You buy slave goods you demand slaverly, particularly if you do so knowingly. Now you're really being a tit. Of course they contemplate and engineer all aspects of product lifecycle, what do they do when every jackalope who actually wanted an idope/applebook all in one gizmatron has one? Close up shop? Obsolescense and a wear lifecycle are designed into the product, you don't escape interaction with the corporate entities by scavenging the products late in their lifespans. You certainly don't excape benefiting from(and endorsing) any exploitation they have performed when you own and persistently employ their products. You might as well call that opinion magic, the first owners washed off the karma for you.
  21. I read this and want to posit the inconcievable outside chance that the alledged human scum writer may have been presenting an anti-welfare and handout position. To make even the small step that anti-handout arguement is anti black or which ever particular group is being induced by this or that welfare program is a judgement and a leap based on personal philosophy in these things. Your attribution maybe correct but your attitude is off and makes it seem like the black man would be as unlikely and rediculous to turn down state assists as a low income single mother or disable person etc. Because as a black guy he is all discombobulated and overwhelmed from historical and social tensions and all that? He can't work and contribute with all that hot mess in his face right? Condescension and diminished standards are fair, warrented and appropriate however stereotypes are wrong and harmfull. Perhaps the writer creatively imagined a black man who understood the only free lunch is the cheese in a mouse trap and used the character as a mouth peice. I would guess they have a base of support to maintain, whatever their actual veiws about the subject. I have a brother on the dole, I don't bother the arguement because people who won't work and aren't interested in meeting their potential can't be up rooted. The work and conflict rarely appears worth it, people are generally fundimentaly selfish. Edit for the record I don't care either way on this subject I accept what happens in the world and all that however you are making a certain kind of arguement, here such as if you cast a vote for gay marriage you must be a gay person, and if you cast a vote against it you must be an antigay homophobe. It is a reduction a step or two to far and preclusive to all but two positions. There is also the tactic of reinforcing a personal intellectual or religious postion by making a monster of the oposition.
  22. A NPC adventure party as player in a prisoners dilemma with PC's has loads of gameplay potential particularly if the NPCs character and story can inform PC major decisions which in turn inform later NPC decisions, etc. Speech dynamics other skills and interest conflicts can play apart in sucker outcomes, or cause the greater good to squeak out a win. It sounds like a fantastic dynamic I wish they could go back to. I don't know what you mean about the remark about his interpretation.
  23. I wanted to try and put my finger on it, I think that female is conciously modelled after Rhianna.
  24. Every buffoon in a suit of steel represents a lot of wealth and human energy behind it, kind of paints over alot of oportunities for a unique and feasible environment to be expressed with a general facade of 'pure epic' epic everything with some grit smeared on. What happened to the 'barbarian' from early shots? The nature of the female sorceress character and the 'romance' as hinted in the recent trailer is off putting, it's rather ugly. Without knowing it was a bio game with playing and enjoying JE and ME over the last couple years there would be zero chance that I would pick this up from its standalone appeal.
  25. The wang doodling boy joke had meaing in the context that <3hearts are vagina symbol girls may typically cover a peice of paper with... The rest was contrived youth adventure in a suburban opium den and I can't stand buddy/mook player Seth Rogan. filter pft.
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