The people that are so denigrated here are perhaps victims of a particular mythology they chose to follow that encompasses the destructive instead of the constructive. Interesting. While I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to any sort of mysticism (there are other more likely explanations), I do agree that it's counterproductive to point fingers at any single person and engage in defamation.
I am still confused, whats with the last one. I know hes an ex-communist and quite the socialist, but dangerous, I dont think so. I would worry more about the generals and the members of the cabinet than him. Yes and no. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia doesn't pose any sort of economic or military threat anymore. Problem is, socialism doesn't work and communism doesn't scale, so the Russian people are going to end up right back whe
Huh did i say that? I just said they need to be very careful. Meaning they need to be vary careful not to kill Iraqui citizens where possible. Agreed. Unfortunately, we're sorta placed in a no-win situation, because many of the insurgents are Iraqi. We're caught in a civil war. In addition, there's a lot of anti-American sentiment going around which isn't really helping to solve the problem any faster. So, yeah, there's a lot of pressur
every time an insurgent kills citizens in Iraq, he creates more insurgents looking for revenge. Indeed. This is why Iraq must have a successful police force in place before we leave. Every time an insurgent in Iraq dies trying to kill American soldiers, the cycle of violence ends there. Therefore, if we pull out of Iraq before a police force is in place, the violence will become self perpetuating and unc
Interesting. This whole war is rather interesting, in fact. Nearly every other war we've fought has been a lot bloodier (soldiers dead in the world wars count in the millions, and the american civil war a lot more) - but you'd think this war was the bloodiest we've had yet. It isn't - in fact, it barely scratches the surface. Yet we call Bush "dangerous" - what does that make the presidents of the previous wars? Interestingly enough, people also complain about our occupation -
Also, I made the text blue in the hopes that it would show up better on the galciv2 forums and journals page. Well, it seems to have backfired - I find dark blue on black to be hard to read. Usually white and yellow work better on dark backgrounds. Perhaps you now understand why a growing number of people call Vista 'ME2'. Beware of the Programs area of Vista (aka program files), cause any attempt to update programs wi
Vista will run GalCiv without problems, but it all depends on how you want to use it, as well as what hardware you have. If you don't have DRMed music or video, it won't be a problem, but if you do then yes it will only be worse. If you don't have any DRMed content, or if you use iTunes, the experience will be the same as you had before. It only affects Microsoft DRMed content and DRMed DVDs. It's worth clarifying that the new DRM measures only affect content th
I loved Homeworld 2, and it did have an enormous scale, although that was somewhat diluted by the non-linear scaling that defaulted to on. I'm also an avid fan of the Civilization series. I just love strategy games. Real time or Turn based, I don't care as long as it's fun . And it looks like Sins may be a winner, and another one to add to my already large collection of strategy
One part of the "AI" isn't really AI. A lot of people think of the trade screen in the game as being "AI". But it's not. It's basically just a dialog full of weighted values. And that seems to be part of the problem . . . perhaps there should be some sort of decision tree or expert system or some other AI construct to make more intelligent choices about what it wants and doesn't want to trade. For instance, in GalCiv
There are multiple translation of multiple versions, of the anthology that is the bible From what I understand, the different "versions" of the Greek/Hebrew are actually largely the same, with only a few minor differences. In nearly all cases, it's an easily fixable error that does not change the meaning, like a spelling error. There are no known cases in the Greek and Hebrew where the error is something that would fundamentally change the meani
I go to a Baptist Church every Sunday Do you think Baptists have a good idea of what the Bible teaches? Did they have Bible studies that go into depth about what they teach? Do they take a look at the original Hebrew/Greek during their studies? The Bible is a translation, you know. Look, I think about this stuff every day. Not very deeply, it appears. And it appears you've ignored my pri
Also, why does Satin even exist? Well, if I understand correctly, he's a fallen angel. I'm not totally clear on this, but apparently angels were given a limited form of free will, just as humans were given free will. The precise origin of satan is not clearly stated in the Bible, nor is the precise cause of satan's fall given. Why does God allow Satin to exist and corrupt us anyway? This usually boils do
although I am assumming that in the above scenario Hell is eternal. Well, God doesn't force people into heaven if they don't want to, and if they didn't want God on Earth, I doubt they'd want him in the afterlife. Irregardless of what Hell is, whether it is "burning forever" or "eternal seperation from God", Hell really, really, sucks. True. If I could press a button a
OK, it seems like nobody's closing this thread, so I'll take my chances with a reply. I personally don't think Hell is eternal burning, I think of it as life without God. Maybe that's a heretical thought. Maybe not. But that's what I think. That's actually a lot more accurate than the "burning" hell which Stanley seems to be obsessed with. I think the "burning hell" is a mistranslation. Here's an email exchange I made with somebody rece
I'd love to talk in depth about all this, but unless I get the blessings of a moderator, I think it's best we return to the actual subject of this discussion. Stanley, I received your email and am currently writing a reply. You should receive it within a day.
Stanley: I wrote a whole bunch, but decided not to risk the wrath of the moderators by changing this into a full-blown discussion. If you want to continue this argument, you may by PM or email. In the meantime, here's a link to an article where similar questions are asked and answered: http://www.christian-thinktank.com/evilgod.html
The bible also says homosexuals are an abomination to be killed, but then murder is a sin. Also, God supposedly doesn't sin according to the bible and he can't allow sin into heaven, but the bible is riddled with His wrath and destruction such as when he supposedly created the floods and spared Noaa's ark. Also, God is sinless, yet he will ultimately burn over half of all his own creations in eternal hellfire because they didn't put their trust in Jesus. <br
maddybadger: Well, I'm not very convinced by emotional arguments, hyperboles, and using Hollywood movies as a basis for science. Furthermore, I doubt the moderators want a lengthly discussion on religion, so I'm not going to pursue the matter further. I've said what I think, and I stand by it.
because both PCI-e and AGP are dedicated video busses and no boards will have both. Incorrect, actually: PCI-E is not a dedicated video bus. It can be used for non-video purposes, just like PCI. It is, however, a replacement for AGP. Now i have to buy a shit but compatable graphics card and throw it in the bin when i buy my good one, all the while i will have my perfectly good NVIDIA card sitting on the shelf ga
Religion makes you feel bad for doing even normal, healthy things. You're never good enough. Not all religions are based upon works righteousness. And even non-religious philosophies can create standards that are too lofty. I think it's a shame a lot of people are blaming "religion" for problems that have to do with individual beliefs rather than religion in general. And wow, you people really went off on the religion thing. I'm quite surprised
I run a MAC because I lost a senior thesis back in '97 when I got my bachelors degree and posponed graduate school for 9 months while I worked to restore/recreate a new thesis. There are many ways to protect yourself now, plus it's always a good idea to back up important stuff, no matter what OS you use. I've been using PCs for years, and I've seen it all - viruses, power outages, hardware failure, etc. But I've developed strategies to deal with
Awesome, looks like the AI is going to be very exciting! I noticed all of the screenshots were windowed, not fullscreen. Any particular reason for this?
I always use Stardock Central to run DA, as it updates automatically.
a) Check to see if any stray apps or your sound driver have the equalizer or something similar set wrong b) It's not spelled how it sounds. It's spelled BASS.
I noticed that if I fiddled with a custom race's personality, it will create a new description - which will override any custom description. It's nice for creating a description, but if I have already given them a custom description, I'd like to keep the custom description.
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