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[quote who="Agent of Kharma" reply="49" id="2482241"] Quoting SpeedDemon517, reply 48@lifekatana Are you seriously asking us to go to wikipedia? You do know that that website can be altered by ANYONE. Yes ANYONE and EVERYONE has permission to change wikipedia entrys, so while common entrys on there that everybody knows about are going to be true most likely, I dont think going to wikipedia to learn about evolution would be a very smart idea. I quit responding to the guy

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Lughsan" reply="28" id="2481016"]Ok believers... riddle me this one.. Co2 is heavier than air...(don't believe me spray a fire extinguisher and watch how the gases fall no rise into the air) ...still don't believe it..its particulate matter you say break a Co2 cartridge and tell me where to you get cold at your feet... or your head when you do so... Or better get a lab and test the air above where you break the cartridge before and after.. there won't be more co2

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, right - Mumblefratz needs me as a reinforcement like they need snow in Greenla . . . err . . . dammit, not only are they screwing up the climate, now the deniers are shooting all the metaphors to hell too! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Jonnan

Reply to Physics of Space Battles in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah - In my Starfleet command game I had to rewrite the shiplist to eliminate fighters and PFC's because I find the illogic of them so annoying. The only reasonable rationale for a 'fighter' in space is as a way to extend the reach of an immobile platform, space station, et al. Jonnan

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[quote who="Lughsan" reply="418" id="2479610"] Quoting Vandenburg, reply 5 Quoting SivCorp, reply 4You can read the evidence yourself Van. I've read the stuff. There is no evidence. Even a very unfair interpretation of those emails doesn't conclude that something shifty was going on. (You have to take sentences extremely out of context to do so.) Besides it is a boring topic to discuss in details. Deniers won't ever argue with facts, only

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Goodness - gone for months and it's the same group of people claiming to be 'skeptics' that are never skeptical about anything the Free Republic/Fox/AEI/Cheney crowd says, no matter how many times it's proven untrue in the past. I suppose the fact that this was a few emails cherry picked out of supppsedly gigs of data hacked has been bought up already. I suppose the fact that nothing in here actually points to any 'conspiracy' past the point of "It turns out scientists are peo

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Since in practice every denier I have seen in the last ten years has tried to dress as a skeptic, and everyone dressed as a skeptic has been a former denier that was forced to reluctantly admit there was warming but no claiming "It exists, but it's not caused by us" (Which always strikes me as like claiming building should only be designed to withstand earthquakes if you prove humans caused them. It's *still* a disaster.), ah What exactly are we distinguishing here?

Reply to What is the best RPG.....? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Neverwinter nights the system was cool. Neverwinter nights the *campaign* was . . . way too depressing - . Well Written, and fun to play through the first time, but good lord. The most uplifting part of the game is *after* you've become trapped in hell - . Though at least having your own demi-plane is fun "Greetings Sojourner . . ."!

Reply to What is the best RPG.....? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

For those scoring at home - Although I can't afford to, say, buy Planescape brand new ($170+ new?!?!), it turns out Amazon *does* have the entire Baldurs Gate I+Sword Coast+II+Throne of Bhaal for about forty bucks, which is about what I'd seen people charging for the expansions on Ebay before (I have I and II, but neither of the expansions). I picked it up just for the expansions, but if you've never played, it really is a classic. Jonnan

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I never had any problems with Temple until you were fighting the Balrog - and my video card would say "Screw *this* shit" and have a fit. Three different PC's gave me the same issue over the years - run great through most of the game, then roll over and die at that spot. Fun until then though - I recall a female fighter with a pole arm and great cleave in a room full of archers - "And *YOU* get to die and *you* get to die and *you* get to . . . tell ya what. Everybody dies." - <G&g

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Baldur's Gate is still the best D&D style RPG out there that I've played, though I would love to try Planescape:Torment, just not for the prices I always find it at. Neverwinter Nights is great, but had some weaknesses - the story wasn't quite on par with Baldur's Gate. More to the point, the NPC's weren't on par with Baldur's Gate - "GO FOR THE EYES BOO, GO FOR THE EYES!" Morrowind? Sorry Oblivion lovers, Oblivion is very very good, but I can't imagine people playing it

Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Stable (Or at least semi-stable) wormholes. I have to confess, I've never quite figured out the point of the one use wormholes as it stands now; They're only useful once, they can only be used by survey vessels, they actually *are* distinguishable from the 'standard' anomalies, so early on you are watching your flagship like a hawk to make sure it doesn't end up on the other side of the galaxy, later you have range and you don't care. The only positive use for them is that if

Reply to MOD: Slow Start 2.0 for Twilight of the Arnor in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I like it - I concede my own solution to the 'survey ship' was to add a dialogue in my game that said "We have completed the survey ship - it has a great deal of 'black box' technology received from other races" in my personal mod to imply that these ships were the result of an interstellar conference where different thig were traded back and forth among scientists. Jonnan

Reply to Double standard? No way! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Heh - when are the occasions I'm supposed to start clapping just because everyone else is? Sorry, but some of these complaints seem to me to reminiscent of the large guy complaining that he doesn't get sympathy when somebody half his size hits him first, but gee, the one time *he* swings first . . . Well - Yeah. I'm 6'2". No matter what happens, if the other party is smaller than me, I'm not honorably allowed to swing first, and often I'm expected not to swing second.

Reply to Double standard? No way! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I guess - The question regarding the two articles aside - I agree that the standard of 'hate crime' is far too subjective, and I don't like the concept . . . I'm like anyone else, I remember being irritated at a black woman in a college class that implied that, as a white male, I had just never had hardship. At the time I was putting myself through college while living well below the poverty line, was living off of a combination of school loans, GI Bill, and minimum wage.

Reply to Best protest signs ever in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="56" id="2343963"]I'd rather not, at least not in this topic. It effectively ended on Jonnan's reply 49, and the actual content of the topic is not really worth debate. Perhaps in the healthcare topic, although that will depend on how well Mumble can hold my attention.[/quote] Ah - someday to have a flamewar with me, Willy, and Mumblefratz all on opposing sides of a question! They's have to upgrade the server - . Jonnan

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[quote who="Melchiz" reply="55" id="2343957"] [quote]Quoting WIllythemailboy, reply 54I have no intention of "engaging you in honest debate" because I have read the preceding two pages, and you have proven yourself incapable of such a debate. Ask Jonnan, if I think I can convince someone of something, I'll jump in with both feet and a clue-by-four.[/quote] Bring your hours of research with you, please. I'd hate to lose an argument and discover that you only invest

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Right. Calling you on misrepresenting the context of what was said is a 'personal attack' that disqualifies my abilities in a debate. Sorry, no. You tried to set up a straw man. I said, unequivacably that that was not at all what I tried to say. You tried a second time, this time explicitly extracting a premise that was, at best, twisting what I said to fit the argument you wanted to attack. I again said unequivocably that that was not at all what I intended. You tried

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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="35" id="2343079"]Jonnan001 - Did I say I was fond of any other such bills? Congress has been this lazy for decades. Doesn't mean we should continue to acquiesce in their laziness. Fact is they're leaving a lot more than just the 'administrative details' to the executive.[/quote] No you didn't - although I actually disagree with what you posted (I think Congress *should* stick with frameworks. Most, although not all, of the th

Reply to Best protest signs ever in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Melchiz" reply="32" id="2342810"] Quoting Jonnan001, reply 31 You've gone over the border from "Badly mistakenland" you're in "Deceitfulograd". I'm sorry, but at this point you are quite simply trying to lie about what I said in a clever limbaugh-like ignore the context fashion in order to make an easily debunk-able straw-man. Stop it. It's dishonest and disrespectful of those around you whom you think are too stupid to notice. Jonnan<br

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Last post for the night. You've gone over the border from "Badly mistakenland" you're in "Deceitfulograd". Because *this* is what I quoted orignally [quote]Even when bill is littered with the phrase 'or other such requirements as the Secretary may determine' (or similar) all over the place? Congress completely shirks its responsibility by setting up a monstrous bureaucracy & says, "You guys write the rules.' Which means we don't really know what the rub

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Except that's not what I said, nor is it implied. I said that certain specific portions of our legal system have kept a format for 200+ years, and it is a tried and true format. Since that format was being criticised as being, in and of itself, a bad and foolish way of doing things, it was entirely germane to the conversation that it has a track record. But even in that conversation I noted, albeit in passing, that their had been both successes and failures using this system - had the

Reply to Best protest signs ever in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Melchiz" reply="25" id="2342684"] Your comments suffer from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_premise[/quote] Given that false premise is a formal term with an exact meaning, one would presume that someone familiar with it would have noticed either that A: in order to make such a charge, one has to actually both state and debunk the premise they consider incorrect, or B: my comment is in the form of sarcasm, and does not even loosely follow the form of a syll

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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="19" id="2342565"] As someone that *has* read a good portion of HR 3200 - it's a pretty good bill, hope the GOP doesn't manage to kill this. Even when bill is littered with the phrase 'or other such requirements as the Secretary may determine' (or similar) all over the place? Congress completely shirks its responsibility by setting up a monstrous bureaucracy & says, "You guys write the rules.' Which means we don't really know what the rubber-

Reply to Military Starbase tricks and tips in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I've found them pretty useful in a support role, but feel that they should be more gradated - you should be able to make very powerful, but expensive to support starbases, or cheaper 'lowlevel' starbases. As it is I think they are more powerful than they should be for the relatively inexpensive upkeep, and not as powerful as they should be for what they cost in time and opportunity cost to build. I'd also dearly like to be able to build planetary and/or orbital starbases - the