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Reply to Thank you, USA! in Politics JoeUser Forums

I wish I could thank your home country of Canada for something but I can't think of anything they've done recently. recently? We are loosing ton of political credibility to back USA on many topics. However, it doesn't really surprise me that you don'T know. You keep in the tradition of your country, 2) Don't care about Iraqis in the slightest. 3) Don't care about what Palestinians do. Gee, a

Reply to Thank you, USA! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Having a bad day? Just needed to toss a little 'fek you'? Actually, yhea. Not helping reading opinions about things like this on this forum. Come on people, some of you are really the definition of blind zeal about beleiving that it was the Right Thing to do. There is simply no debate on this forum, because everybody always keep their position, and just throw insults at each others. Thank you, self-centered cr

Thank you, USA! in Politics JoeUser Forums

I would like to thank all the USA, for they inconditionnal support of the war in Iraq during 2003. It has lead to so many good things: - WMD have been found and secured - The Iraqi people can now enjoy a new era of freedom and peace - Terrorism is as low as it ever was, the whole Middle-East region is enjoying a wonderful democratic/Western love revolution - Saddam Hussein as been taken care of with all respect to international law and opinion, with dignity as it befits an "

So you "lost" 12B$? in Politics JoeUser Forums

My god, you facio-conservatives are all jumpy when the smallest thing is said that prove your point, but why can't you even talk about something that embarass your point of view? So the Bush Administration "lost" 12B$ in Iraq.. Hmmm.. Yhea, they were prepared to a careful, efficient and organized offensive/rebuilding effort.

Reply to Europe is dying in Politics JoeUser Forums

Actually, there is 2 roots to the problem: First is the society's desire of children. It's not always easy, as it have been said before. Children are often depicted as "life-ender", when you loose freedom, nights of fun and other things. This problem can subtly be countered with governement promoting family. This take the form of financial aid to artists who promote family in their work (such as folk singers who include a few songs about how it's great to be a father), and taxa

Reply to Information about AI to Draginol in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The Economist, edition of the 27th January p.80 "Artificial Intelligence: Winning ways" Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have long been intrigued by games, and not just as a way of avoiding work. Games provide an ideal setting to explore important elements of the design of cleverer machines, such as pattern recognition, learning and planning. They also hold out the tantalising possibility of fame and fortune should the program e

Reply to Libby Trial Shows Dark Side of White House in Politics JoeUser Forums

(funny how the topic drifted out of topic in the first 10 posts..) anyway. If there was no crime commited, what Scooter is being tried for?

Reply to Information about AI to Draginol in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, as I understood the idea (but I may be wrong. This post is open to future editing), they used a Monte-Carlo simulator, and when the AI finds a senario having 80% probability of success, he tries to apply it. For explanation of the monte-carlo method of simulation, here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method As I understood it in my financial course, you set the tree of possibilities, and the actions you can take. You set the optimal solution for every situation t

Reply to Dark Avatar: The Graphics difference in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I would like to see a Starbase-design generator, which would actually randomly generate a new kind of Starbase/game/specie, making them unique everytime.

Reply to Information about AI to Draginol in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The biggest problem with Monte Carlo simulation is the raw computing power required to run them It was, until recently. They have found ways to make Monte Carlo simulations much more power-efficient. Or so I remember the article saying. I will give the magazine's exact stats and page when I will get back my copy (we trade books <img src="http://i

Reply to U.S. Governement make pressure to deny Global Warming in Politics JoeUser Forums

Global warming does exist....it's the myth and junk science that SUVs and people are the cause of it. They can't even prove it, so they use words like "very likely" to cover their nonsense. I see a trend: First, it was "could be" then, it was "maybe" after, it was "possible" continued on "probably" followed by "likely"<b

Information about AI to Draginol in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi there. I remember, in one of our discussion about the AI's-core weaknesses, you mentionned that the reason the AI has difficulty considering high-movement ships is because it works on the same principles of a Chess-AI, and where the Chess-AI only has to consider 1 pawn moving (and only 2-3 destinations), the GalCiv-AI has to consider 300, with about 50 destinations each. The more you increase the ship's speed, the more difficult it becomes to the AI to efficiently move. I read an int

Reply to U.S. Governement make pressure to deny Global Warming in Politics JoeUser Forums

You are right, I wrote a book about it so I have done the research which covers most of the silly arguments people like you cling to as proof. Then how do you explain IPCG's report? One of the many, claiming that there is now almost no more dissenssion about the reality of global warming. People like you keep saying that half the scient

Reply to U.S. Governement make pressure to deny Global Warming in Politics JoeUser Forums

You repeat your arguments like a broken record. How much have you been funded to throw some discredit on the global warming theory? I mean, wow, you really try to sound convincing! You practiced your speech often?

Reply to Tactical value to speed? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Well, it depends. I think it rather exploit the AI's (occasional) stupidity than any true tactical holes...

U.S. Governement make pressure to deny Global Warming in Politics JoeUser Forums

Here, follow this link: http://www.physorg.com/news89377631.html Here is the proof that most of the report that cast doubt about the truth of global warming were probably pressured to say so. The link is only concerned about governement's pressure on 2 scientific groups, but I am pretty sure that the private industry could have either sponsored their own phony studies, or paid up some group to lie about their results. However, I am quite releived that the denial-fanati

Bush's message, in summary... in Politics JoeUser Forums

Something a journalist said over here that made me laughed. Bush, in his State of the Union speech, actually said the opposite of John Lennon: "Give war a chance"

Reply to Will Hillary Kill to Win? in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Obama thing is thanks to Hillary. I though the Insight Magazine was a conservative paper?

Reply to Will Hillary Kill to Win? in Politics JoeUser Forums

My god... when you people are slandering, they don't do it in half, don't you? Two days ago, it was Obama who went to a radical muslim school. Now, it's Bill Clinton's death list. Do you expect full writer rights on this one?

Reply to AI misreading my military abilities in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Have the military rating be rated both with the usual attack point and the kill ratio effeciency. (with a % proportionality) exemple: If I manage to kill 10 attack point for every 1 point I destroy, then the AI would take into account that I use my ships much more efficiently than he does. He could then take actions in consequences.

Reply to Pirates overpowered? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I would like to see that kind of mega invasion, on that scale, but with Dread Lord ships + many invasion troopers. That way, DL would be a real terror for everybody..

Reply to New Pirate utility! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

They should have the opportunity to evade us.. Maybe by having incredibly insane speed? If not, it would not take long for any power in peace time to zoom-in an destroy

Reply to Iranian Amb. + Left Wing = Same Rhetoric in Politics JoeUser Forums

However, right-wing rhetorics also inspired military dictatorships in many places. It just happens that the fad and the spotlight right now is about the left..

Reply to Stop Global Warming: EAT MEAT in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The fallacy in that argument is that we do not have enough to feed the whole world now. We do. It is a matter of distribution, not supply. However, with the speed of actual population growth, we would better switch to vegetarian food if we want to feed everybody. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Bod