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[quote]Why is our economy not based on our collective ability to produce? Instead, our economy is based on an abstract concept called money. If you have a stack of lumber, hammer and nails, you can build a house. If all you have is a stack of $20's you're gonna freeze your ass off.[/quote] What you're really asking is why do us crazy people live in a capitalist society instead of a communist utopia. I'm pretty sure if I were living in a communist

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Curseman, eat bananas, you need more humor. You also suck at picking quotes, because I have way more offensive ones than that, not to mention serious ones. [quote]The fractional reserve banking system needs to be done away with or at least highly restricted and national governments need to stop using privately owned for profit central banks! Hell the whole system needs to be dumped. There is no reason for a sovereign government to have to pay interest on the money

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One word, ACORN.

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

You assume I'm busily humping McCain's leg just because I'm hoping Obama gets assassinated by a crazy dixicrat clansman when he gets elected. I'm just tired of all the bullshit surrounding Palin when she's the vp pick against a fucking moron for a presidential pick with less experience and more unsavory ties, gotta love all those present votes in a chief executive. This election is a choice between Satan and Hitler from my point of view. There's the McCain Fiengold Incumbent

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Serious converts to democracy need to figure out that people are still morons even after you let them vote for who's going to be the moron in charge. The difference between a monarchy and a democracy isn't the quality of leadership, just who's to blame for putting them there. When things go to hell, the population has only itself to blame, as opposed to genetics. Which is why liberals will rot in hell before accepting that the mortgage problem is their fault. :)

Reply to [MOD WIP] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Better to take rommie ships from Armada than Nemesis... /wrists Assuming there is a viable implementation and the mod continues, how about runabouts being strike craft variants for space stations? How were you accounting for the general lack of fighter usage among ships, just using the Akira or trading shuttle bays out? Also, Yorkshire, knew the name was familiar. The ST encyclopedia is where it comes from, the USS denver hit by a Card

Reply to The Hard Code Problem in Sins Modding Sins Forums

May they be lifted soon. I loathe playing the standard game against the ai. :) Honestly, your .02 demo beats it for entertainment value in the short run, doesn't hold up long term without working up the motivation to seriously tweak it, but the vanilla sins is just... boring. A very good game, but bland sides against an ai that completely lacks finess in taking advantage of the details.

Reply to My American politics as a Brit? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Kyro: I admit I am not familiar with your gun laws. Yet self evidently with the frequent office and school massacres stories we receive your legislation is deeply flawed. I know that an outright ban is impossible, as you point out in your nation criminals would still get their hands on weapons, your southern boarder allows in plenty of drugs, its not hard to imagine weapons as well in the effect of prohibition. Perhaps in lieu of knowing more I would be for 'effective'

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

It never gets anywhere. Myths can't be argued. I point to unsound real estate lending turning a normally bulletproof, low risk investment into one of the worst, he ignores it and blames the deregulation that makes it technically possible for you to choose(free country right?) to fuck up in a catastrophic manner by creating government backed securities that are guaranteed to fail and were bought from yourself thanks to the GSE's. Forcing people to have 20% do

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]I AM a professional OTR interstate truck driver and believe me, US truck drivers DO NOT WANT Mexican drivers and rigs running all over this country...It's bad enough already for US truckers with freight rates being pushed down, fuel costs rising and road useage fees and tolls increasing... And the "NAFTA-ites" want to sell more US jobs down the river?[/quote] The NAFTA-ites have a firmer grip on reality. Your job is going to disappear anyway. Trucking

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

Fact check organizations like what, moveon.org? Biden's made more false statements than a neural net poetry generator in his tenure as a Senator. The guy makes shit up on the fly half the time, he's almost as bad as Hillary claiming sniper fire. Try factcheck.org and politifact.com, they aren't perfect but they're probably more accurate than any of your sources are if you can't tell Biden plays fast and loose with the truth. Those evil republicans aren

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[quote]Um, John Sherman and Benjamin Harrison were Republicans governing pretty much at the height of the first GOP peak in the late 19th. Hardly "liberals," if you insist on using that outdated, distracting, worthless pair of dueling vacant adjectives. It isn't really a matter of L vs. C, but in-power vs. out-of-power. When you're in power, there are immense pressures to reshape gov't to suit the needs of your associates while hopefully doing well by "the people" or at least avoiding popular

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You're crazy. Thoughts concluded. People take losses in the market all the time. Taxing the increases and ignoring the losses just gets you an even more screwed up system than we have now. Under current tax law, which everyone is screaming bloody murder about, if you make a hundred grand and 20k in short term gains, that 20k is costing you 5600 in taxes. If you take 20k in short term losses, you save 840 bucks from the deductible. The fucke

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

My mother is a member of the most corrupt union in the country, OMG!!!11111 She's totally an unbiased source of information. You're about as objective as a hole in the wall. Do you actually bother to look things up when you already know them, or do you just stick to educating yourself when it's not something you have a preformed opinion on? When my mother starts talking crazy shit about something, I either look into it myself or ignore her. When it was crazy shit

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Take a candy bar into a theater that doesn't allow outside food and drink and wave it around, then take a gun into a bank and wave it around. After that, you should be able to grasp the fundamental difference between violating house rules, and violating law.

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Maudlin, herd mentality. Don't assume board members and fortune 500 companies are an intelligent group of entities. Individually, maybe, but the herd always wins the voting contests. Beyond that, form a lower opinion of humanity in general. Individuals have a habit of being intelligent on occasion, but when you put people in a group they are almost universally stupid. We can't even manage to blame the right presidents for a 30 year problem that w

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

People read the National Journal? I go by government statistics. He has a 96% party line voting record. You say the Senate is moderate, I say you're fucking nuts. They just voted for several hundred billion dollars in a corporate bailout to pay off their buddies in the banking sector instead of doing something rational to free up the credit markets. Never mind that the credit markets are only tightening to what normal people would have considered

Reply to Kings Bounty: The Legend demo impressions in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Getting your teeth yanked is more a question of what they're doing when they get yanked. Mine were in the bone and had to be busted apart and yanked out in pieces. My neck hurt from all the strain by the time the guy was done ripping them up. Of course, I was also a fucking moron and had burgers for lunch right after and a steak for dinner. Add to that not bothering to take any pain killers until it was excruciating and it was one hell of an interesting day. I'm

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

Jonnan, try checking the youtube link. That would be the source of the crap you haven't noticed anyone post. [quote]The city has a population of ~9,000 now, about 5,000 at the time. $22,000,000 is $4,400 per man, woman, and child. Now maybe it's an investment, maybe it didn't need to be done, but the fact that she was forced to accept a city administrator tends, to me, to suggest that there was a degree of 'buyers remorse' among the resident after they saw her wit

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]Well first you're buying into the strawman that having Sins on Impulse is some sort of copy protection scheme to which I've repeatedly said it's not. Sins has no activation, no DRM, nothing. The reasons we have Sins on Impulse have been discussed to death. But copy protection wasn't one of them. It's not a copy protection "system".[/quote] Do note that I used copy not a single time in the post you quoted. In case you're

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Google is the hardcore warez scene? Even if I wanted to be in it, stealing games off the internet is beyond my tolerance level. I have a daily download cap, and torrents over satellite are horrific. Yes, there are legitimate uses I've put them to, agonizingly. Getting a six gig game off one would take me at least a week, more likely a month. Of course, this also means I am incapable of reasonably verifying the working condition of any sins beta t

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He disagrees with your premise that the law as written has any relevance. :)

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Spartan, I'm not for the bailout. How the hell did you come to that conclusion? I'm of the view that we're royally fucked if we keep repeating the same mistake, this isn't the first time we've done this. The last time we spent a fraction of this and all it did was create more bad mortgages, which have only held up this long because the perpetual housing bubble meant defaulters still let the banks at least break even. That is of course until I'm with Stupid got into off

Reply to when is everybody going to come online? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Um... no. Sins isn't even a traditional rts, and you'd be lucky to see one online player for every five hundred buyers on at the same to for any rts, let alone one that's been out for half a year. You're a little late, but this was never going to be an online hotspot. It takes a good chunk of time to finish a game. 1.1 being incompatible with 1.05 may be adding to it though.

Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic. Congratulations, Africa is fucking insane. Aside from Keith Oberman being the crap that pond scum feeds off, what else is the point of that idiocy? A pastor visits, blesses the political aspirations of someone running for Governor against people she hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of beating. This is an entirely accurate presentation of the expectations at the time. Not kno