Jonnan001

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MOO III had some really nice features, both eye candy and not, that I really liked - but A: they lost something along the way - the species became 'dry' somehow, without the personality they had in MOO II (I never played MOO I/Starlords). For some reason I don't quite understand, I had the issue with Civ III too - loved Civ I and II, enjoyed Civ IV, Civ III didn't quite work somehow. B: it was buggy in constantly irritating ways. Not necessarily the worst bugs in the

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man, that guy should get a real job - does he do anything but play and mod this game! (Duck the inevitable thrown tomatoes - {G}) - Jonnan

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[quote]If Stardock/Ironclad made this game with the current taxes in place and were able to sell it digitally for $20 US; does it or does it not make sense that if taxes were raised on them, to say, the tune of net result, $5 US per digital copy, that they would raise the price to the consumer, passing along the "tax" increase, or eat the $5 US from their bottom line? That would be $2,500,000 US they would have to eat, according to their estimate of the 500,000 copies sold, correct? This is b

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[quote who="CobraA1" reply="15" id="1940657"] One last point, I've never met or known one owner that created a job from getting a tax cut. Joe the Plumber. I'm pretty sure if I asked around I could find more. A lot of businesses that run on slim margins are affected greatly by tax rates. Even when Business gets a cut, they don't use that money to pay their people more Can you prove this? Have you done a survey of businesses? Have you asked their acco

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[quote]I know it's hard, but think. 2.5%-6% deficit. 5% increase over Reagan's request. Fucktard.[/quote] Umm Psychoak - that math doesn't even make sense. Reagan didn't submit a balanced budget - the budget he submitted was 20/21sts of the way to the 6% of GDP budget that was finalized. The Democrats chose not to accept *all* of the cuts he made in democratic plans, which added a final 1/20th of the budget. No matter how you calculate that, that doesn't mean Reagan

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Good lord I'm gone for three hours and the Laffer Curve came into the conversation. Nothing like an undocumented curve whose equation is always "Just drop taxes on the wealthy *another* 5%, and the economy will *BOOM*". It's also neat how the Republicans that came into congress in 1994 are responsible for lowering the deficit in 1993 and 1992, the two years that post the exact trend going into the next few years. I'm sure that was what it was. While we're talking about mytholo

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[quote who="CobraA1" reply="12" id="1939448"]If anybody wants to check out the budget figures (unless Obama changes them, which he is likely to do), they are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/budget.html The claims that he was some hate filled racist that wanted to end slavery because he just couldn't stand the sight of all them damn niggers and wanted to send them all back to Africa is bullshit. Wow - people are actually saying that about Linc

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[quote]And still, I'm clueless as to how decreasing taxes for the rich hurts the poor at all. Even if you don't buy trickle down theory, it can't hurt others. It can only help the economy at large, the job market, and all those in it. People would argue that protectionist policies are good for the working man, but this is again another myth. I don't know who's idea it was that manufacturing jobs are the only source of good blue collar work. The fact is that countries both become more pro

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Umm - yeah - Reagan far outstripped the Republican congress. That's the definition of the term "No coat tails" Psychoak - when the Presidential winner doesn't carry any congressional seats with him. On the otherhand, if you pull a lot of congressional seats in over the hump too, then you have coat tails, suitable for riding upon. As for the rest - yeah he got the top rate cut - the deficit [link="http://traxel.com/deficit/deficit-percentage-50-years.png"]went through t

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[quote who="Roxlimn" reply="22" id="1938331"]The US healthcare system is in trouble because you pay way too much to middle men and because your financial penalties for the most ridiculous of medical transgressions is unrealistic. All medical malpractice settlements and decisions should have been kept private - or if public, kept to a reasonable minimum. Granting someone a million dollars, or jailing the MD for an understandable mistake (according to standard of care) means th

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[quote]Indeed, Obama ran 20 points under the generic ballot. Coat tails you say? More like the democratic party dragged his black ass across the finish line in front of an old white guy too busy flogging his own backside to actually run[/quote] Psychoak - look at the 'generic ballot' polls over the years. EVERYONE tracks under the generic ballot. It turns out that, as a conservative, your 'generic ballot' republican happens to agree with you on everything. Too be fai

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[quote who="cdnred" reply="18" id="1938215"]I am disappointed in the results of our last election, not in that Obama and the Democratic party won but in the fact the American people didn't wake up and realize that our freedoms are being stolen from us. The choice in major party candidates offered no real chance for change. Also, Bush was no conservative (he increased government and spending).[/quote] God I hate the "Bush was no conservative" meme. Bush followed the same policies

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[quote who="Shadows-802" reply="9" id="1937894"] Not that I mind laughing my ass off at idiot democrats that are so proud of their racist, segregationist party, but you really should get a clue on which side of the spectrum has been backwards. The democratic party shit themselves big time when Wilson backed the suffrage amendment, not that they weren't shitting themselves before he backed it too. The bill was going to fail, with overwhelming republican support and few democrats, everyone

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Sorry, to me that's like saying "I found *all* body armor worthless, because it doesn't protect against shots to the head." And hey, if you're in an environment where you don't have to worry about anyhting but snipers, that may be a legitimate point. However, there's an old army joke "It's not the bullet with my name on it that scares me. It's the one labeled 'To whom it may concern' ... " Most of the viruses you run across are not the latest uber-bug, it's bs from a script-ki

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[quote who="EviliroN" reply="19" id="1934631"] Me, I still want a party-based parliamentary system and a plural executive except during a real war, like we had back in the '40s. American government back in the FDR days was as fascist as it got, shame on you. [/quote] Do people not know the definition of Fascism anymore? Without indulging a debate in wikifactuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism [quote]Various sc

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[quote who="Broosbee" reply="6" id="1937774"] I'm still alive, so I guess you are right about public hospitals being required to treat people. But I do beg to differ with you anyway. There is treatment and then there is treatment. I had an almost worthless insurance policy, but I did have one. I still think that they could have done the biopsy in my room a LOT sooner than they did. I've always wondered if they waited as long as they did to mak

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[quote who="Nathaniel Richter" reply="4" id="1937190"] Not only did the American people vote for a liberal candidate, in a landslide might I add... How is winning by 6.7% popular vote a landslide?[/quote] There's a good listing of presidential vote margins --> [link="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/"]here[/link] (Warning, for reasons I don't quite get, the site shows Democrats as red, GOP Blue - I'm sure If I delved into it there's a reason but I haven't bothered - jus

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Now see - THAT is a crying shame - . Jonnan

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I don't know - by late game, I find it hard to burn money fast enough. It's more fun than building terrorstars. And *that* is the *big* question - can you use these to slingshot terror stars! Mua HAH HAH HAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! Spaceballs - the irrelevant reference: "Terror star slingshot initiates in 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . . 4 . . . " "Hey!!!" "Just Kidding . . ." Jonnan

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As a progressive, I hate it, but I have to disagree. Bluntly, Obama's record is that of a centrist with some leftward tilting ideas. As it happens, he's in tune enough with the public 'vibe' of the country that the leftist ideas he has happen to be one's the country is finally ready for, but it took eight years of paleo-conservatism to drive the country to this point. The problem is the nature of Conservatism and Liberalism. Conservatism is, in most circumstances, a deeper bas

Reply to Super Duper Abilities & more in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

One should remember that the "The Super Spy Training Center" also gives a fairly formidable research bonus (Particularly for early game, if you can get the Krynn to actually trade it to you - I've traded it for sensors III before) - if your plans are based in researching your way to galactic domination, it's both a free research bonus and of course it lowers your spy costs considerably. Super-Breeder is (IMO) sufficiently overpowered as is - just keep your morale high, and

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It's . . . Raspberry . . . LONESTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's good to have them in case of human error - I remember managing to get a PC at work infected because I had toggled my ultra-high Internet Explorer settings off for a specific site, got called off to do something else, and spaced toggling them back on again when I was on the net and got infected by a site. Had to disinfect manually because I was damned if I was going to risk losing admin rights by pulling in the IT people to look at my machine - which, come to think of it undermine

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Asterisk seems to be tech that aren't actually available to your tech tree - but as near as I can tell, if you can get them to trade them, you can use them, and sometimes those are quite good - but right click on them to see what it actually does - just having it doesn't give you *any* access to their tech tree past that tech, and I seem to recall at least one tech they would trade to you that was just a stepping stone to another tech of their's, itself inaccessible to you. I have als