Bulldrek v3.0

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Wait! Does that mean if I believe Bush and Cheney are goose stepping around the Oval Office with Evil Over Lord helmets on, laughing maniacly, that I have to believe Michael Moore?

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Well when did Vietnam end Ratlaw? When was Rambo, First Blood made? How about Platoon? How about Watergate? ever see any specials on it? Are people still doing books on it? You bet your ass. Yeah protest and the right to question your government is great, but so is common sense. (By the way, I thin...

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There wasn't any reason for the Japanese to be expansionist, because no one had anything they wanted that badly. I sure will disagree with this.Some one always wants more. Just because one regime didn't see any benefits in expansion doesn't mean others weren't pushing for it. Land, resources, prest...

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People are afraid to be labeled ProAmerican. Hell our own citizens have been taught to hate themselves. We constantly berate our own nation and its role in the world. Agreed, though initially, those railing aginst our government had reason to do so: Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs mishap, civil rights abu...

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Heh. This should be fun. I was hoping so, yes :) Because if we don't they hate us and we can't deal with them in anything but an antagonistic context I'd submit that we already deal with a good number of them in this way as it is. A good number of them act this way despite our best efforts. But, if...

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OOh. Damn, knew I must be missing something. Well, my guys are chugging away in RAM somewhere

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I'm going to reply to everyone in one post, hopefully I'll manage to keep it clear who I'm responding to at each point. Eva: I had similar thought when I first read this article. Later I went back and rather than looking at what he said I was looking at how he said it. The essay is packed with decla...

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No where else do so many question the "manifest destiny" if you will of their nation, than America. To me, I have a hard time seeing Palestinians or Israelis questioning their right to fight for what they believe in. But why do we, as Americans have to pussy foot around? Why do we have to...

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As another note on the reduced progression of high level characters, I run PQ just about continuously. You can gauge my progression from that... :p Hrm, that would imply that, purely from a garnering points angle, we should be continually making new characters after they hit about 40 or so. Dimenis...

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Has anyone running multiple characters seen any difference in the rate that they level up/kill monsters? I've been running four characters, three of which I only started recently, and there's a definite levelling off of your rate of advancment, but I don't see that individual characters matter. Whic...

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This is only vaguely related, but I'm curious.

Thorn:: Why dye your hair purple, and if you really want purple hair, why wait till then?

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I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to feed 8 million people, even for just a day, you'd need more than one. How long do you want the supply to last and will it need to store anything other than just grain? Out of curiosity, what's the motivation for this question?

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There was an interesting article in the latest Foreign Affairs magazine titled "The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism." I'm not going to say it's a wholy partial and unbiased piece of writing, but the author does weigh in with a lot of American policies since the end of WWII that are pro...

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That said, why haven't there been any threads about the Bali explosions? Personally, I think it's because the Bali bombing fits into the "normal" format of terrorism. There wasn't a hour spent staring at the TV screen watching a skyscraper burn and collapse. There weren't images of people...

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About ten minutes ago I was watching all the rhetoric on Australian TV at the moment regarding the Bali Bombings. They were talking about how many Australian's were killed, which they think is around 300. This spurred me to do a bit of math and compare with september 11. Bare with me here, there wi...

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One small little correction, Gunny. Catholics pray infront of statues of saints all the time. Protestants consider this idolotry just like praying to little golden cows or whatever. Not that I disagree with what you're saying, but to fundamentalist Protestants it's a big deal.

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Your incentives to vote, the structure of your parties, the stability of your goverment; all of this is determined by the system of your elections and the mode of democratic government your country has. If you think the situation in the USA or the Netherlands is wonky, you should check out the inter...

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The Forge is an interesting board I recently discovered. But they're mostly interested in indie games and RPG design theory. Which I find interesting, but probably isn't everyone's cup of tea.

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DV8 wrote: That reason just seems a little empty, though perfectly valid, of course.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "seems a little empty?" Empty of what, exactly?

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Neat. I assume she's filling in for Aaliyah?

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From what I can tell it saves the game automatically when it quits. Then you run the program again and hit the Load Game button. Pick your save game and it starts up exactly where it left off.

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I was taught the same thing, which is what makes me confused on this as well. I guess I can just chalk it up to those in charge of such things winging around terminology as if it has no meaning. Kinda like the tendency I see in Americans to label anything against their way of life as "communis...

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I would stipulate that, regardless of whether a particular religion is right or wrong, they are all institutions and are made up of people. So to say that religion causes problems is really to say that an organized group of people cause problems. I have an issue with discussions of this sort: all gr...

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I thought that it was said that they "opposed the implementation" because "it would cost union jobs"? And then, since they opposed it, Management did it anyway, but the Union would have nothing to do with it, so Management was forced to use non-union workers in those areas? My u...

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Okay, so if I understand this correctly (and I have not been following it at all...) 1) Dockworkers complained about the pace and safety issues. 2) Management tried to implement barcodes and equipment. 3) Dockworkers refused to participate with it. You go wrong at this point. Managment tried to imp...

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Wrong. The problem with the bit in Turkey is that the government was forcing people to not do something they considered a part of their religion. The problem with your religion in public schools is that it is the US government, through the school system, forcing Christianity on those who are not Chr...

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My understanding is that the dispute isn't "We don't want barcodes" but that management was going to hire non-unionized workers to do the jobs that involved using the datapads. So it's not just a case of technolcgy allowing less people to do the same work, but that management wasn't going ...

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I wasn't entirely clear as to the point of my post, so I'll actually put some non-questions in this one :) Just saying that "everyone from the CEO to the temp in the mail room gets the same wage" doesn't clarify the situation enough to answer the question "what would happen?" Tha...

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What about corporations? How much money can they make, and is that limited? Are prices fixed as well, because if they're not you're going to see prices rise in some places but fall in others. What about people whose income is more directly sefl-generated: small farmers, small business owners, etc. I...

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Dead:
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Morphine
The Doors
The Beatles

Broken Up:
Alice In Chains
Rage Againt the Machine
Talking Heads
Soul Coughing

Haven't Had the Chance:
Ween
this band I saw side-stage at Lalapalooza '95 whose name I never learned
Feel So Bad
System of a Down

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Thanks Deev, I was trying to dig those emails up myself but only found the first one. *looks in his inbox and notes a lack of character sheets* I'm assuming everyone's been trucking along on their character, since no one's told me otherwise. Sure hope I've got some sheets to peruse soon ;) In an att...

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Jan asked what year the game will be starting in. I figure 2060 is as good a time as any, probably late spring/early summer.

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Well, I'm happy to see everyone's moving along at a nice clip to get done by Friday :) Sam: If you have any questions about riggers let me know, I'm pretty good with the Rigger rules. Out of curiosity, the group is being built along lines that resemble a more typical group of shadowrunners than I ha...

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Out of curiosity, why not go with an AMD system? If I recall Intel has reclaimed the sheer speed lead, but Athalon's still cost significantly less. And if you are going with a P4 for the sheer speed factor, why not go RDRAM? Been four months or so since I was paying attention to processor info, but ...

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Wow. A player who knows where Denver is? My gosh. :eek More seriously, drop me a line via email and I'll get the baisc campaign information to you. Once you've digested that we can start talking characters with more specifics. No Blood oathing :o( I said you don't have to do blood oathing, not that ...

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Alrightie! Characters are due by October 4th. Also, are you guys planning on knowing each other IC at all prior to our first session? I would recomend it, since this isn't going to be a "fixer calls you with a job" type campaign. You don't have to be bonded by dark oaths sworn over blood o...

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Actually white women outnumber white men by 4 million or so. So old, white women represent the largest chunk of the entire population. Source is the 2000 Census data.

www.census.gov for more fun with numbers.

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Yay! So, out of curiosity, is anyone going to actually fill me in on what they're playing, or do I get to be surprised? Oh, another thing: Sam :: What's the state of your Vamp game?

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Ratlaw: Yes, I'm comparing murder to littering. It's easy to argue with murder-it's obviously wrong (the logic hasn't been proven, but it is the first commandment and worthy of capital punishment, so we accept that it's wrong) . Take it back to grey areas. That's where the quandry is. I know that a...

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We run into these questions every day. You're carrying a shitload of stuff to your car and you drop some trash that you were throwing away anyway. If you're late to the midnight shift and get stopped by a long red light at a 4 way intersection when you can see for plenty of distance that nobody's c...

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So you ask why not let loose the beast? And I respond, (a) because the beast gets shot and (b) the beast doesn't get you what you want. I'll group everyone's points under Ratlaw's, because I think he said it best: people shouldn't be amoral because the penalties are too high. Now, let's think about...

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I'll give you my short, quick answer to why you should, then I'll get long winded. Short Answer: Life is not a one-shot game of Prisoner's Dilemma. Long Answer: Several people have already mentioned that you stick within societies rules because if you don't society will move to enforce its rules on ...

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If anyone is ineterested in filling in Deev's spot, let me know. Time frame for the games is 1pm - 5pm EST (GMT - 5). Email works best.

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Out of curiosity created by this thread, and a sudden need to edit a bunch of mp3s, I did some looking around and hit upon a program called Tag & Rename that doesn't suck. Haven't used it extensively yet, though.

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Completely false in your case. Once people get into power there is no real safeguards to stop them doing whatever the fuck they feel like doing. Power is not directly exercised by the people at all, it's exercised currently by a cabnet of fuckstains who were all CEOs of major corporations. The peop...

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Since I love a definition, a quick trip back to the Webster's Unabridged... democracy \De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Democracies. [F. d['e]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people + kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.] 1. Government by the people; a form of government in which th...

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Purpose of this thread is to provide my upcoming Denver game with a forum for discussing characters and such so that no body feels like they're duplicating another character. Also this will allow us to develop some amount of group backstory, unless you want to be total strangers when we start. Also,...

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Ampere wrote: Sorry, but what exactly makes you think republicans, or any politician is any different?

Absolutely nothing. That was my point, though it wasn't expressly stated.

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I appreciate that. Same problem I have with Democrats over here, really. Are you claiming that Democrats have an "unwillingness to do anything that might upset soemone?" If so, that's not very accurate. More accurate would be to say that they are unwilling to do anything to upset their /c...

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That said, your logic seems solid to me, though I'm sure Atheists would be displeased with you telling them thattheir world view is solipism. Depends on the athiest. However, his logic isn't solid. The assumptions upon which it is based are faulty. And here I'm going to quote heavily from the Webst...

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