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Good article, I went to RPS to read this as I don't think your link is working

Yeah I like this beast, what about if its only defense was powerful illusions? So then it could try to intimidate people with a form of subterfuge " Foul Mouth" Good name and appropriate

Facepalm.jpg. Before posting nonsense try read "Capital" by Marx (or works by Lenin about this). True socialism is where no State exists. That sounds typical of Marx, a system that sounds perfect in theory but is completely unsustainable and can never be realistically implemented. I always wanted to live in Wonderland, but I had to accept it won't happen.

They have: Britland Portugal Italy (recent elections notwithstanding) Ireland Greece Spain At the very least France and the Balts as well. While it is pretty stupid the ultimate problem was overspending in the good years, now they only have a selection of various poor choices. They've gone for the one which best matches the fiscal orthodoxy du jour, which is of course coming from the same people who completely missed the crisis (encouraged it, even) which is largely responsible for the problems being so bad. Thanks for the links, but almost all these articles discuss proposed tax increases or increasing taxes on the wealthy or new property taxes. I understand this and agree. But I am talking about tax increases for every person across the board, both rich and poor. And it looks like only Greece has implemented this

Rewarding people for not working and punishing those who do does not lead to prosperity. For proof you can look at places like Detroit, Chicago, and California. The European crisis should also tell you something. But to be be fair strong socialist countries like the Scandinavian countries, or rather socialist hybrid countries, don't do that. They don't reward people for not working, but they do provide excellent public services like education and healthcare. And they do this through relatively high taxes. But most people work so the tax burden is shared. You can't implement a system like this if you have high unemployment, like South Africa, but the more I look at the various economic models around the world the more I feel that this is the most fair and equitable system overall

I don't think he will. Oby correctly using "a" or "the" is not going to happen. "america was a zombie".... funny

I enjoyed Risen 1. I remember the excitement when I finally became a Fire Mage, it was a real sense of achievement. And I agree that Piranha Bytes does do the whole open world RPG game well from an exploration perspective

Ive always wanted to try absinthe just to see if it gets me all blotto. We get Absinthe in South Africa, if you drink it as a shooter its actually too strong and I can't imagine its good for your liver. But its good to mix in a ****tail. Also there is a common way of drinking it where you light the shooter and have it with sugar. But I still prefer Tequila

But its nice to get all this feedback, it shows people care about your gaming experience

This is no surprise and long overdue, it was revealed recently that many cyber attacks against large USA corporations have been traced directly to a building in Shanghai and all the evidence points to a unit of the Chinese military unit being involved http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mandiant-report-fingers-chinese-military-us-hack-attacks/story?id=18537307 The Chinese need to address this scourge, they are well aware of there own government funded illegal activities. The Chinese do this to gain economic advantage from companies in the USA. It is unacceptable that the Chinese behave this way.

Thats a good find Key, I hope this puts to rest any objection to supporting this project. I hope Alan and Gorth see this video

To think this blimp almost became Belgian. Personally I think his behavior is disgraceful and unpatriotic, I hope France prevents him ever returning to the country if he leaves, as from what I understand he still lives n France. Or ensures he cannot get French citizenship again

I think you're confusing what people who hype austerity measures say and what austerity measures actually do. People who hype austerity proclaim that companies are too nervous about uncertainty, so they are not spending money and that by cutting programs, more people/businesses will suddenly invest/spend money. They typically use immeasurable variables in their arguments(like "confidence" and "uncertainty") and engage in a bit of fear-mongering to advance policies that do not work very well. What austerity does is reduce the amount of money the government is spending, which reduces the total amount of spending going on in the economy. Austerity is typically a good idea in years where the economy is doing well, where the scaling back of government spending will not have as large of an effect as it would in a situation where people/business were not spending very much(like right now). The problem with austerity measures in times like these is that there is no guarantee that people/business will start investing to make up for reduced government spending, and can result in higher unemployment and less total spending(and often does, if you look at the results of European austerity measures). So austerity is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, which is to slow the growth of an economy. It is not helping an economy grow, because that is the opposite of what it is designed to do. Good points raised, but I thought I was saying almost the same thing. The Europeans haven't raised taxes as far as I know across the board as a solution. They are trying to enforce systems where people pay taxes and close tax loopholes, like in Greece. Are you guys saying that you don't think governments should cut spending? I am saying they should but austerity is not enough. You need reinvestment, and this can't only come from the government It needs to come from the private sector. How else is an economy suppose to grow?

Okay that also made me laugh, good one

Funny

You sound bitter, shame poor Volourn The good news is that no one is going to force you to buy Witcher 3 so you don't have to worry about investing in a bad product from naughty CPR. But I will keep you updated about the game as I play it so you feel included in my RPG experience.

"dust monster from hell " funny

Okay I subscribed to see what all the hullabaloo is about

Austerity is working pretty much exactly as expected- if you take large amounts of money out of the economy it will contract and that is what happened/ is happening. It isn't even reducing debt, it's just reducing the rate at which it accumulates. Only way to fix it is to build a time machine, go back to high growth years and politely suggest that (1) banks aren't omnipotent and cannot suspend reality by wishing real hard/ giving big donations and (2) running deficits in good years as well as bad is moronic, poor stewardship, and cannot be sustained. To be fair the intention of austerity is not suppose to be failure. Reduce government and wasteful spending and then get people and companies to reinvest in the economy to allow growth. But what is happening is governments are implementing there own austerity measures so you naturally have jobs losses in the public sector but the private sector is reluctant to reinvest or hire new people so economies are stagnant. I don't believe this is a fault of austerity. Of course we need to look at each country on its own to analyze the success or failure of the austerity measures.

Good decision Kaine, good decision

Roughly speaking New York - Philadelphia - Washington DC - [anywhere in the south] - New Orleans - Galveston/Houston - [anywhere in Texas/Kansas] - Denver - Monument Valley - Grand Canyon - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - San Fransisco. Most of these towns only work as waypoints, i do not see myself staying in Denver for example for more than a day. We are trying to have an open mind. If there's something like a barn dance festival in one town, we'll stay there. Does that creek look interesting? well camp there. Does this place have an interesting history? lets check the museum. Does this town have the best gospel choir in the state? we're gonna be religious just for that. That's the point of our journey. That sounds awesome, its going to be an amazing and fascinating trip. Think of all the stories and things you will see in each state, it will be like traveling to different countries. I am envious

Taxes should be one of the last reasons someone from the USA wants to immigrate to the UK. There economic recovery has been much worse and slower than most predicted. Austerity isn't working there as expected, its a similar issue throughout Europe. I love the UK but if you think moving at the moment from the USA will give you an economic advantage you need to reconsider that option. But they are unsurpassed in there knowledge of how to make a killer English Breakfast, so that could be a reason to immigrate?

Not really, these video's are funny and we have seen some failed KS projects but the reality is also that KS does offer a real financial model for developers to get games funded outside the normal Publisher model. Lets not become cynical and jaded with KS so soon

Well said, thats a good post positioning why we should support Numenera. I find it difficult to fault anything you say @ Gorth How you sleeping at night? Any guilt ravaged nightmares about not pledging towards Numenera? After reading the post above you should have some if you don't support this project

F:NW is brilliant, you'll have loads of these types of events and exciting encounters during the game