Whatever it is, we should probably kill it quick!  Who's up for forming an angry mob?

*grabs a pitchfork*

> Levitas wrote:

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> BC Cougar wrote:

> flint??? who the hell is flint...

Um... how long have you been playing, exactly?

> xeno syndicated wrote:

> Which equates giving all his money bank to the corporations / bankers  bureaucrats that @#%ed him over in the first place, simply for the opportunity to have somehwat dignified shelter.  Oh, and of course, he'd have to get a job, and fork over his wages for what's left of the rest of his working years to, you guessed it, the @#%#s that #%#$ed him over in the first place.

Xeno, I'm going to give you this big revelation:
We all have to go get jobs.  We all have to pay for housing.  Just because he has to do this stuff as well as other people, it doesn't mean the government has any additional obligation to pay for his lifestyle than it does for anyone else.  Stay on topic and discuss the issues specific to this guy, rather than a general "life sucks" rant/

> Besides, where's he going to get a job, anyway?  In this economic climate, and as you said, not being able to use computers, he'll be lucky to get a job at McDonalds.

Once again, everyone has these problems.
Oh, and stop relying on anecdotal evidence.  I just got a job a month ago.  Proves you're empirically wrong. 

"he could invest the rest and live on interest."

Invest in what exactly?  Citybank?  Enron?  Mutual funds?  Bonds whose rates of return don't cover inflation anymore?

If you think every stock, bond, and mutual fund in the global economy is unprofitable, then you're just insane.  Simple as that.

It's usually written in the form of judicial opinions.

I want snow! 

Pompiedompiedom?

No, it's who's previous!  You guess who came before you!

Mishe?

Look, the problem isn't PNAPs themselves.  It's that we as players use them too liberally, and expect them to be enforced out of honor.  Let's come to one fact: The enforcement mechanism for a NAP is the honor code.  That's it.

Many of us as players, however, have come to accept NAPs as a God-given right, enforced by something greater, but shocked when families that break NAPs end up winning.

What's the solution?  It's 100% simple.  A Karma system.  I proposed this in #mod, and I'll explain it here:

Keep track of every dishonorable act both by leaders of families, and players, perhaps through one massive sticky in Uni News.  Allow both sides to explain their side on issues.  But in short, keep a record there.

Once you have that record, people can decide for their own whether a familiy's leader is trustworthy.  If a player has habitually broken NAPs against various families, it would show up on the record, and people would know to simply not NAP that person anymore.

Don't forget about methane!

One more:
Next to the number of TOs you have, put back the portion that tells you how big an income boost you get from TOs.