I haven't voted yet, And I was undesided . . .

But this morning, an annoying and loud recorded mesage woke me up telling me to vote for Obama,

So in sleepy anger I'm voting Mccain.

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(75 replies, posted in General)

lol. You need fixed width fonts to do ascii art. This forum uses variable width fonts. Ascii art will never display correctly hmm

2,228

(11 replies, posted in Politics)

Hurray for legalizing pot! Hurray for abolishing nearly all government programs like the CIA and FBI! Hurray for Bob Barr.


Maybe the media doesn't cover the other smaller party candidates because they're crazy tongue

2,229

(58 replies, posted in Politics)

>in the end... no one wins because both of them are douchebags. neither can pull through with their promises because they are both unrealistic

Well, lets really screw this thread up wink

Both candidates are retarded idiots. No one will do what they actualy say they will do. Thus we should vote for the best looking candidate. The best looking candidate will make America look cool. We should vote for barak obama cuz being black is cool. Mccain looks like an old mans crusty used cathider. It doesn't matter what their parties policy is! Socialist, Anarchist, we need a hot president that some ho can leave some black rapper for. That man is Barack obama. Vote obama cuz he's black! werd

(If you believed a thing I just said, you may relieve the rest of society by taking your own life, tongue please )

2,230

(61 replies, posted in General)

Dark blue with white stripes

and a rip hmm

2,231

(5 replies, posted in Politics)

>Get rid of social security

Amen

2,232

(12 replies, posted in Strategy)

DS are very usefull for fams who are getting farmed.

Last round I was in a fam that was getting farmed from several families all round. We built 10 ds's. They reduced the attacks dramatically and is why we came back to make the number 5 spot.

Before that I wasn't a believer in DS's

BW. If you want to find out more about the "death tax", read this page:

http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/vultures_death_taxes_more_falsehoods.html

They cite all of their sources.


>the rest of you are newbs and boneheads.

I can't take you seriously. You make a topic open for discussion and then refuse to hear others opinions. I refuse to read any more of your posts. Not even the rest of that one.


EDIT:

Oh and your right on that 1.3% number. It's actually 1.16%

I'm pulling that number from "Unspun Finding facts in a world of Disinformation." It's a good book. A little bit liberal but you should pick it up.

2,234

(34 replies, posted in General)

Lots of water and sleep.

Also I've heard it's a bad idea to eat too much sugar while sick. Or any sugar for that matter.

4.  the "Death tax" will not be ended.  So, you pay taxes all your life, and then when you die, the Govt. will take 40% of your estate.  You cant pass it on to your next of kin.
5. Capital Gains are going to go up.

The "Death Tax" actually only applies to the richest  of the rich, 1.3% of americans to be exact.


And I'm far far from liberal (might be farther right then conservatives) But most of america is moderate. Right smack in the middle. What's happening policy wise is The right side has gained power but the minute something bad happens we switch sides. We now see a decline in the right and an increase on the left. The left will have their turn for a little while but soon some event later in history will turn the tide and we'll try the right side again.

It's like the sine wave of ideology. And the wave will continue for as long as most Americans refuse to align themselves with one side or another, which means eternity (or until the US is dissolved)

The american constitution says nothing about political parties. I say F* them all and lets all be independents

2,237

(438 replies, posted in General)

This would make a good irc game. . .

2,238

(10 replies, posted in Strategy)

I can tell from my websites hit counter that few people are even giving this a try. sad

At the very least someone should click on the link and look at the screen shots smile

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(26 replies, posted in Strategy)

Yes but I play in PW, No one there is smart enough for that big_smile

$269 american.

Time to make a trip to the bank!

2,241

(22 replies, posted in Universal News)

>duh, a stupid pic, i could take a better pic of my penis.

but no camera has the required zoom tongue

2,242

(37 replies, posted in General)

That's pretty lame sounding. I'm not a sports guy.

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(144 replies, posted in Politics)

"The sobering reality is . . ." this topic is 6 pages long!

>That until the human animal is forced to evolve to a point where intellect over rules instincts(Emotions fall under the category of instincts IMO), any economic or political philosophies mankind dreams up with will forever be destined for failure.

You didn't explain why you believe this is true so I can't prove you wrong. I don't believe in evolution, but even if humans evolved to that point, political philosophies will always still be wrong. You need infinite intellect to understand all possible outcomes in order to actually get something right.

2,244

(22 replies, posted in Universal News)

That was homoerotic?

2,245

(55 replies, posted in General)

1) Galaxy - Made by Mars - UK
2) Bounty - Made by Mars Inc. - USA (according to wiki:P)
3) Dairy Milk - made by Cadbury UK
4) Dairy Milk Mint - made by Cadbury UK
5) Wispa - went out of production, but after much protest, reintroduced recently - Cadbury, UK
6) Snickers - Made by Mars inc.
7) daim bars - (not sure who makes them as they changed name and stuff ages ago   )
8) Coffee Crisp - Nestl

2,246

(10 replies, posted in Strategy)

A10's Spectacle!

It displays events in your family history on a graphical representation of the universe! You can zoom in and out of the galaxy as well as move around in all directions to get a better view. There's a variety of views to select from ranging from Unsucessfull Attacks to exploration. Just about what ever you want to see you can.It has it's own map file and thus it's own map file creator on my website. Map files are in plain text and therefor can be transmitted through a forum post!Displays all sizes of IC galaxies! A must have for any family with news wink

You can get the tool, view screen shots, and use it's mapfile creator here: http://a10design.vndv.com


TO GET STARTED:
Spectacle doesn't need to be installed it's stand alone smile

1) Create a preferred folder that you would like to put it in ( like maybe C:\Documents and settings\Billy bob\My documents\Spectacle )
2) Open up that folder in your documents and move the spectacle.zip file into there. Extract it in that directory

TO USE:

1) Double click on the spectacle executable (it has a yellow spade icon)
2) Click File-> Open Map File and select your current map file. (You can make a map file at the website) (for demonstration open up pw44.map that came with the exe)
3) Paste Your families news in the edit box that tells you to (for demonstration paste the contents of famnewssource.txt that came in the .zip file)
4) Click Calculate-> Fam News
5) Click View->and anything you want to see. (Try exploration summary for the demonstration. My family last round was very activly expo-ing)

CONTROLS:

Left-click =    Zoom in
Right-click =  Zoom Out
Arrow Keys= Move around


Enjoy!

[Tagpoint]

2,247

(66 replies, posted in Universal News)

>A game with no players are a DEAD game

I can't even think about what you wrote. For crying out loud you should use "IS" not "ARE"

Are a dead game. It scrambles my brain!

Anyways this is a quote from the tri announcement:

"Due to Capricorn & PW filling up & there not being many, if any now!! spots available to play it has been decided to revive Triangulum for at least a round & if it should be busy then who knows what the future may bring..."

There was fair warning about tri not being permanent.

> one for people just out of virgo (PW)

PW is by far the best Galaxy noob or not :-). Always full, always at least semi active.

2,248

(28 replies, posted in General)

IC v3

I thought it was going to be a new game. Turns out it was just a new home page banner sad

2,249

(27 replies, posted in Politics)

Dolphins and Humans are teh only species that mate for fun.


I think someone already said that.

2,250

(54 replies, posted in Politics)

Libertarians are (in the US anyways) near anarchists. They oppose all government programs except for a small military. This means no CIA no FBI and very very very relaxed laws that don't limit people (like legalizing pot) etc . . .