Rosbjerg

I think he means .. Action Replay: when you can record a game and watch it afterwards .. like the function in the upcoming Battlefield 2 .. where you can record an entire game and watch it from any angle and follow any player and pause, rewind etc. and then, "how do you do that?" .. at least that's how I deciphered it!

Sometimes I get the urge to kill my brother .. because he can draw like this .. the bas****! Although it's quite useful since I can use his skills to illustrate some of my writings ..

to Dakoth: well you can't get anything else except money .. but if 600$ isn't enough you can get up to 500$ extra each month .. to buy the essential food or what ever! but of course you have to prove you need it, which isn't hard if you actually do .. how about school? do you get any money from attending that? here, if you are under any kind of education ... (and over 18) you get something called "goverment education support" which is determined by you income and your parent(s) income (+how far you live away from them) .. the absolute max is about 1000$ and the minimum is 420$.. if you have a job on the side (and you make more than the maximum allowed pr year) you pay taxes on all of you make above that (which is almost 45-50%) .. (I calculate 1$ = 5kr)

I would also say .. My own .. I (and 5 friends) have made a complete world, with unique cultures and languages! we are currently working on the system to play with, but the setting is done .. it's a planet which have been struck by a HUGE asteriod, which have caused the it to rotate on it's side (like Uranus) .. so there's a huge desert on the side facing the Sun and the backside of the planet is covered in total darkness, with skyhigh mountains and glaicers .. the only place livable (by human-like creatures) is a belt around the middle of the planet .. where 6 (upcoming) Empires are fighting over control! (one for everyone of us who made the setting) we will then each control an Empire, and wage war on each other .. until we are satisfied, and the final result will be the current political system .. then we will make characters, play as those in the world .. and every change we make will be recorded and applied.. (same goes if anyone else plays) there's more to it, but I don't wanna drown you all in infomation!

I sucked so badly at the first game .. I always "ran out of recources" and I could never figure out what I did wrong .. (maybe because I only played for 5 hours before I got totally sick of it)

^ Eldar I think people are quite well aware of that .. and Dakoth .. yeah that wasn't what I meant .. I wasn't clear sorry about that! :"> we have the same system, like I said that's called A-class .. where you pay a ceartin amount every month or every 3 months or once a year .. and when you get unemployed you get a montly (or weekly) payment, depending on what you paid earlier .. and I apparently didn't know the figures, because you can actually get anything from 1000$ to well .. anything, depending on what you pay! but social welfare was the 600$ I was referring to .. and no one in Denmark ever get's below that in monthly income .. so that's the absolute minimum!

oh yeah .. :D you could beat the living c**p out of everyone in that game .. ah those were the days! like BG where you could slaughter children .. good times ..

^ conclusion .. Cybertron is a wacky place!

!! I had totally forgotten about that game !! I used to play LBA all the time .. it was the coolest game! :D and LBA 2 was great too .. but the first rocked! thanks for bringing back that memory .. lol ..

^ hmm I thought Sweden was much higher?? what are you guys doing down there? you should be up there along with us and Norway!! and I was in part referring to the GDP/Capita and to the fact that it's not really a secret that we are all filthy rich in northern Europe compared to the rest of the world .. It doesn't really take a statistic to know that! and that I know we all pay +50/70% in taxes and that we get so much money from the state just for being unemployed .. and yeah "Sweden actually has a more capitalist economy than the US" = Priceless .. lol

Hearts of Iron 2 Europa Universalis 2 all the Civilization games .. + Alpha Centauri all Total War games .. Shogun/Medieval/Rome all the Baldurs Gate games .. Empire Earth Master of Orion 2 Max Payne 1/2 Rise of Nations and Thrones and Patriots Call of Duty + expansion Battlefield 1942 + expansions and Battlefield Vietnam yes I like strategy! plus some old games .. Fragile Alliegance and Freespace 1 and 2 .. these 3 are the games I have played so many times that I wonder how I could even make time to socialize back then ..

it should be adressed that if you take a poor US citizen and any poor Scandinavian citizen and give them the exact same amount of money .. the poor from US will be able to buy more things! so it's not entirely untrue to say that their poor has a greater buying power! but! since their poor will always have less money, the argument doesn't hold ..

Norway is fourth now .. and Denmark is fith .. and the US is number 8 ..

"and homelessness is not a result of capitalism. many homeless are mentally ill, many choose to be that way. the difference is that socialst countries have the government dole, so nobody is homeless (well, not as many). and the phrase "impoverished" is a misnomer because the US "poverty line" is nearly middle class in most social-democracy countries..." now this is just a lie .. I'm sorry to say so .. but it is! Scandinavia has a much higher living standard than the US! .. and the "the US "poverty line" is nearly middle class in most social-democracy countries" is just the other way around .. being poor in Denmark is having an monthly income of about 600$ .. because that's what you get from the goverment for being unemployed (you can even get a bonus of an additional 500$ every once in a while).. and that's something every single person can apply to, as long as they are danish citizens and out of a job (and most people are part of something called an A-Class were they get more like 1000$ a month).. now are you going to tell me that the poor in US are making more than 600 dollars a month?? because I have read the reports I "know" what poor is in your country and in the UK and countries with a similar policy.. oh and what kind of nonsense is "most are mentally ill"? that's extremely arrogant to claim! and I think every human would like to be rich and have stability .. of course a selected few chooses the homeless way .. but that's is far! from the majority! that said .. this was not an attack of your system, because that's the best system for America.. but don't lie .. and talking about Health care .. he was talking about health care being free, which imo is also preferable .. yes quality will drop , but atleast everyone can get medical attention .. "even our "poor" have greater buying power than most of the average every where else..." and why is that? that is because things are cheaper in your county, because of the free market, while in a social democracy a more planned economy is required .. which in turn can create inflation that raises prices .. so it's not because your poor have more money, their money is just worth more ..

oh we are extremely rich .. all the countries of Scandinavia is on the top 10 of richest countries in the world .. I think Norway is actually nr 3 .. and while I love our model .. and wish that the rest of the world would be able to implement it on themselves .. it's just not possible .. because a social democratic country needs to have almost complete control of what goes in and out of the country .. and the US is the one of the most important countries, in many areas, but especially in regards of world economy .. if they were to close their borders and apply the same levels of taxes on import as we do, well .. that would be bad!! and if every major country did it .. well .. very bad!

Kaftan and Draakh .. you both need to remember that the size of our countries makes our model possible .. do you realize how insanely expensive it would be for the US to have the same standards in social security, school, and health care as in our countries? because of our small size and relative small (and generally extremely rich) population we can afford such high taxes and such expensive services.. we also apply a plan economy to control the flow of goods (as we would be flooded with cheaper goods otherwise).. which none of the bigger countries could do .. which is why all of Scandinavia and other small European countries (Netherlands/Belgium etc) have adopted the same Social democratic policy .. and that's why bigger countries like France, Germany and the US need to be a little farther to the right to afford their current (more capitalistic) system .. + The right wing(s) in our countries are/is closer to the left wing in US ..

^ when you really get down to it .. what is the big difference?? :ph34r:

well the use of words are sometimes a little geared towards a particular answer .. "It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society." words like "manipulate" and "contribute nothing" triggers a negative respons in most people .. "Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public." "mislead" in this context isn't very positive either .. and I'm a Economic Left/Right: -3.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49 I struck the exact point of Dalai Lama .. haha there's also a graph further down .. with more leaders

see now that explains how you two have so many posts! :D

ahh good to see people getting along ..

ah thank you .. not being from US I don't know the holiday .. we have our own variant, but that is next month!

another Tim burton film? (w00t) I love his films .. I have them all on dvd .. can't wait till Halloween .. that's the 30th november right?

^ to answer some of Dakoth's statements.. if you look at Europe, we have less crime than you, and no death penalty! so we must be doing something different! my guess is "no guns" .. but that's just a personal opinion .. about the drugs, I agree completely that is a problem we will never be able to 100% eradicate! Overpopulation is a hard thing to deal with, the best idea imo would be to allocate people or motivate some kind of movement to lesser populated areas, by helping those areas develop business and thereby attract a workforce.. but to control birth will never be necessary! we have so much surplus food in Europe (and probably US?), and we could solve world hunger if we really wanted .. but there's not much to gain from it, so we don't! (not just by handing out food, but also teaching our techniques to the lesser developed countries) and about school systems, again Europe is doing better than you .. so the problem isn't the individual, it's how the problem is handled nationally! more funds (and a better general infrastructure in the system) will give better results! but then you wouldn't have so much to spend on the military budget.. and that's a problem! " - Rosbjerg

hmm .. just found out .. what's that all about?? I was never in those forums, but can imagine that a very very large group left along with them .. tsk tsk .. bad move!

hmm .. why aren't we getting it then! because I listen to evey kind of music, mainstream as well, if they make something I like of course not just for the sake of it! and all my friends are major music geeks who does nothing but find wierd unknown (and known) music .. so naturally the popular swedish, and non-mainstream swedish, should 'appear on my radar' .. but it hasn't .. maybe I should have a serious chat with who ever promotes your music here!!