4,076

(25 replies, posted in Politics)

it's a RPG not a bazooka

and I don't have one

and you Einstein will die when the TRON project fires a laser at you and converts you to video game data...using your own compression method

(you did say last year there'd be minimal data loss...so you might come through with no anus)

4,077

(10 replies, posted in Politics)

The 30 min video condemning the warlord here


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc


It's a US social media phenomenon

The group has been criticized itself for taking in money and not using it to help kids, just publicize their trauma. 
Such as

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/423503_410890342261831_100000226069937_1882856_8939357_n.jpg


Still it's nifty to outrage a million people within a few days

4,078

(60 replies, posted in Politics)

if Obama's re-elected I'm gonna impersonate a wetback

4,079

(64 replies, posted in Politics)

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/429394_3363863972394_1142957528_33505577_434140320_n.jpg

4,080

(64 replies, posted in Politics)

yeah they should bring her back to testify

I want to hear all about how women need birth control for hormone therapy

and at the end Issa can thank her and she totally proved that women need birth control for hormone therapy

so it isn't preventative care

so HHS can't mandate plans cover it as preventative care

Then send her wailing back to Whore Island.

4,081

(60 replies, posted in Politics)

feudal system? because we make it hard for craftsmen or service people to start their own company hiring other craftsmen or service people to do chores over a wider area, taking on more work than one person, we make it cost more for fuel to move around to a wider client base,we say ' if you're going to hire anybody you owe them health insurance, you owe them 4x more an hour than 30 years ago, you owe them more time off, you owe them paid maternity leave

then if you just want to work for somebody else we say "if you earn $30k a year working you take home less money than somebody who has no job but has kids, because food stamps and tax credits and housing will make up the differnece and then some. but that's ok because your employer compensates you with paid time off and health insurance so your quality of life is better even if you don't have cash in the bank. oh yeah rising food and fuel prices aren't inflation, enjoy the boom"

then we raise taxes on the people who can afford to start businesses in spite of that

then we say "oh shit we have 60% participation in the workforce and 8% unemployed people actively looking, and there's no income mobility anymore, sounds like we need more socialism because it looks feudal"

4,082

(8 replies, posted in General)

apparently they're doing it to raise money to rebuild their church

they're on a Mission from God yikes

4,083

(5 replies, posted in Ideas)

it worked with monopoly!!

4,084

(21 replies, posted in Politics)

http://mrs-o.com/newdata/2009/9/17/bold-and-beautiful-update.html


not really "art" in that its just a photo op.

This afternoon the President and First Lady Mrs. O attended a Medal of Honor ceremony for U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti who was killed in Afghanistan in June 2006. For the occasion, Mrs. O debuted a new floral frock in a bold, red rose print, accessorized with green kitten heels and chandelier earrings.

4,085

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was sequels that radically alter the game format"

4,086

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

too late!

Yeah I know religion has no place in a science fiction game, that's why the whole "Dune" thing went nowhere

4,087

(5 replies, posted in Ideas)

from something we had going in Politics forum

add religious factions to IC

Ritualists get negative bonus to morale if population isn't at starvation, positive bonus to ground defense.  Cause martyrdom is more beloved by God than birth control.

Agitants get positive morale bonus from sharing system with non-Agitants, cause they can go preach at them. Non-agitants get negative morale bonus when sharing system with Agitants.

Naturalists get negative morale from being at building capacity, but diminished food cost cause they love tofu soup with flaxseed oil.

Zealots get positive ground attack bonus, negative morale bonus for not attacking non-Zealots.  I made this up because it doesn't match any Earth religion. Please don't behead me.

Pacifists get negative morale from attacking or defending, but have diminished building maintenance cause they don't get mad and punch walls so much.

Realists know that Magic Skyboy does not exist.  Therefore they don't get any planetary morale bonuses, because Magic Skyboy did not make this place superduper holy.  Cause he doesn't exist.

In a religious galaxy, you can pick what you start out with, and your colonies will copy their home planet.

However, enough turmoil can make a planet Flip.  There's no progression among religions, it's random selection.  A successful conquest should cause a Flip almost certainly.  Flips could also be provoked by a really successful False Prophet spell.

4,088

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

Ok I will post it there

4,089

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

should put this in the game

Ritualists get negative bonus to morale if population isn't at starvation, positive bonus to ground defense.  Cause martyrdom is more beloved of God than birth control.

Agitants get positive morale bonus from sharing system with non-Agitants, cause they can go preach at them. Non-agitants get negative morale bonus to sharing system with Agitants.

Naturalists get negative morale from being at building capacity, but diminished food cost cause they love tofu soup with flaxseed oil.

Zealots get positive ground attack bonus, negative morale bonus for not attacking non-Zealots.  I made this up because it doesn't match any Earth religion. Please don't behead me.

Pacifists get negative morale from attacking or defending, but have diminished building maintenance cause they don't get mad and punch walls so much.

Realists know that Magic Skyboy does not exist.  Therefore they don't get any planetary morale bonuses, because Magic Skyboy did not make this place superduper holy.  Cause he doesn't exist.

In a religious galaxy, you can pick what you start out with, and your colonies will copy their home planet.

However, enough turmoil can make a planet Flip.  There's no progression among religions, it's random selection.  A successful conquest should cause a Flip almost certainly.  Flips could also be provoked by a really successful False Prophet spell.

4,090

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

>hmm..I dunno. If each one of Santa's little elves claimed to be Santa Claus, I don't think it makes Santa Claus ridiculous, but the elves themselves.<

ooo deep

4,091

(9 replies, posted in Politics)

It was $1.47 a gallon in 2000.  It was between $2.50 a gallon and $3.50 a gallon 4 years ago. 

So whatever you pay in Norway, figure it doubled in 4 years and was about quadruple over a decade.  Oh, and imagine that your national economy relied on shipping things 1000 miles by rail to get to a seaport.  How'd you feel about your economy then?

4,092

(64 replies, posted in Politics)

He's explaining. We don't have to make excuses.  Besides, you have to support them, it's the social contract!

4,093

(40 replies, posted in Politics)

you come from Oz and you don't have dentists who wear Starfleet uniforms

4,094

(31 replies, posted in General)

"Nyah! Your mother barks!" - Robert A. Heinlein, "Glory Road"

4,095

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

dpenguins! Get at the end of the line for the rest of recess

/me rings bell

Holder is a total racist.  He was grilled on this in Congress and his answer was twofold.

1.  Black people aren't historically the problem with election violence, so, even though the 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection and the law against voter intimidation doesn't refer to race one way or another, a black man toting clubs at a polling place around mostly black people is really OK.
2. Eric Holder's cousin was a big deal in the civil rights movement, so he's really offended white people don't trust him.

4,097

(64 replies, posted in Politics)

"We can talk about desires and evidence without appealing to fantasy, and I desire cheap sex and freedom. If the price is a human in the microscopic stage of development, then such a price is irrelevant to me. I'm willing to compromise on late-term abortions and such, but if you want to impose your fictitious beliefs on me and take away contraception and abortion completely, then it's war."

A just war.  A war you can feel good about, as opposed to abortion.

4,098

(61 replies, posted in Politics)

We're all Mormon sooner or later haha

Catholic

YOU LIE

Charges were not dropped!

He plead guilty in 2008 to intimidating voters with a club and he got probation

In return he agreed not to intimidate voters with a club until 2012.


Yeah I'm not joking the agreement expires this year.

4,100

(64 replies, posted in Politics)

Direct abortion is "intrinsicly evil" in that nobody had it coming.  It is morally possible that we had to bomb the crap out of Germany, and then execute the Nazi leaders, in response to what they were doing.  Abortion is just to kill people you don't want around anymore, regardless of how they behave.

Also nobody rooted to impose govt funding for abortion on us, and actually Obama lied about never doing it.