Philocthetes

Philocthetes

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Reply to Replacing "Rebels" with "Drudges" or "Thralls" in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="pslblog" reply="13" id="3080738"]The revolution was in many ways an effort to maintain the prosperity brought about by minimal taxation and control. [/quote] I obviously agree in part, but one should not discount the differences in resource contexts. Europe had already consumed most of their forests and begun to suffer problems from overfishing in their nearby ocean waters. No small part of the prosperity of the colonies was because they were beginning to apply European re

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Reply to They’re Still at It. SOPA and the “Kill” Switch. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rovert10" reply="4" id="3078805"]My bigger concern right now is ACTA which Obama already signed and is definately an invasion of privacy.[/quote] There's an interesting article at Techdirt about whether or not ACTA will be treated as an executive agreement or should be considered a treaty and thus require approval by th

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Reply to Replacing "Rebels" with "Drudges" or "Thralls" in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="pslblog" reply="6" id="3079184"]I'm trying to model the game's behavior on their attitudes and responses, not on the fancies of French intellectuals circa 1785 CE. The game's explanation is modern in its conception and doesn't stand up to historical reflection on assembling a civilization from wasteland. Rebellion is a hothouse flower, kept alive in the warm manure of civilization. Drudgery is universal, and stands up to the cold battery of desolation.[/quote]

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CmdrNilles" reply="41050" id="3079629"]Banned for wanting horrible movies such as Transformers (or at least when Michael Bay makes them)[/quote] Banned for righteous blathering about how wrong it is that Michael Bay gets paid to make really, really expensive films. Someone like Bryan Singer could have done such a better job bringing that fine old comic book to the big screen. Hell, it might have been better to leave it in the hands of the folks who did the Saturday

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Reply to I hate passwords in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="15" id="3079600"]I don't know - smell is so intensive that in the animal world, only a maximum of 3-5 different smells can be detected by any organism at one time. Even food critics aren't that much better. [/quote] Not to take you too seriously, but I was only thinking about a 1:1 relationship between hardware and user, not a life in the jungle context. And I figure we're much, much farther from a hardware judge on Iron Chef than we are

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for forgetting fried green tomatoes the dish and Fried Green Tomatoes the film. [quote who="Draakjacht" reply="41033" id="3079488"]And I forgot you're gay. It's not something that comes up a lot, so I really don't think about it.[/quote] That film reference is more queer stuff, but the fried fruit dish is well worth trying also. No worries about forgetting I'm the token homo. It's actually a sign of progress, but the struggle is far from over so uppi

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Reply to I hate passwords in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="12" id="3079514"]It's usable with a mouse as well, there's really no difference on the input method.[/quote] I caught that; just wasn't clear about my (outdated? primitive? stupid?) bias for (old-fashioned?) keyboards. Grabbing a mouse slows me down more often than not, but then I touch-type, often over 100wpm... Never thought to explore the long-password potential of whole sentences the way that Scoutdog suggested; those might

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="41029" id="3079468"]banned for I fer none of those. And why is it token? I have a louquat tree. Turtles like the frut and I make preserves from it.[/quote] Banned because I'm the token fruit in this insane excuse for a thread. Or are you actually young enough not to have heard queer men called fruits? Banned again because all this fruit talk has made me forget the name of the uncommon citrus in my yard that's good for some old co

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Reply to S L O W or not loading at all... in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="PoSmedley" reply="32" id="3079454"]We should have sent him the Redneck Space Shuttle. That would have kept him entertained and out of here for months.[/quote] That thing could help out our poor, suffering Space Coast with a few tourist dollars. Given this so-called economy, there might even be enough shop space in the I-4 corridor to set up a business doing SST refits for trucks, wagons, & vans...

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for forgetting the ladies; those would have been self-opening flowers. Which really doesn't work with the flour-flower thing, now that I think a second...and risks uncomfortable digression into yeasty matters.

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Reply to I hate passwords in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="4" id="3078809"]The future is Win8[/quote] That was an interesting MSDN article, but the tech is of no use to those of us will little or no use for touch interfaces. Re the OP, I'm a serious civil libertarian and loathe the general trend we have towards being ever more documented and tracked by public and private information systems. But I've had a strong parallel sentiment to Brad's when I deal with online teaching. Som

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned because I've no idea what you might mean by PCV other than PVC, and PVC makes no sense. If you're going to put them in a stiff cage, it should at least be a pretty metal or a practical material like Kevlar.

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="24" id="3077424"]I didn't really mean that there would be complete chaos where we murder each other, I just meant that in anarchy there wouldn't really be legally enforced human rights.[/quote] I admit that half my motive in that reply was to poke the Doc about the fact that all decisions are political. But the other half is a sincere effort to get more folks to understand the difference between the casual notion of anarchy and philosophic

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="19" id="3077381"]Time for Anarchy, but then there are no human rights at all....[/quote] As a former philosophical anarchist who was converted to small-d democracy, I have to call bullshit here. There's a major difference between anarchy and chaos, and that difference is respect for other people. The reason I left anarchy for democracy is that our species is still too inclined to use organized violence as a political tool. The reason I wish I could sti

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