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| Displayed name | The Abridged Series |
| Member number | 2080 |
| Title | Guardian |
| Postcount | 1918 |
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| Registered | Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, April 1 2007 07:04
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Yep... At the very least, such an internet's bound to be better than DSL. 'Specially if the rumors I heard about them jacking up costs to cover their own stupidity come to reality. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 1 2007 07:00
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TM's banned btw. I think should automatically remove your canned status. And if it doesn't, complain about it. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 1 2007 06:56
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quote:Actually I was gone for a while and it's stayed like that, I returned with an okay(or at least I thought so) start, and so far, no change to the title thing. quote:Improvement probly won't take this away anyway, but whatever. Hell, as I recall it only took like 1 or 2 days of really bad ideas and judgment to get it and like the Cardinal Sin, it most likely won't go away anytime soon. EDIT: Well, nevermind then, I've just been proven wrong. It happens... Woot! [ Tuesday, April 03, 2007 07:38: Message edited by: LF ] -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Saturday, March 31 2007 05:01
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Unfortunately for you, I came back too, so this place won't be as nice as you would like it to be. And come to think of it, I need to catch up on the games too. Thank you for reminding me. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Saturday, March 31 2007 04:59
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The problem with affirmative action is that is racist, much like Black History Month. Anything that revolves around race is. No sugar coating can change that. Instead of going well out of our way to show off what black(because most blacks in this country did not come from Africa within one or two generations, and don't worry, I hold crackers to the same standard) people is practically saying, "Look at them, they're not white. Nope, not white at all." Instead of having a month dedicated to Black History, why don't we do the intelligent thing and give Black History its deserved amount of space in all history books. As far as affirmative action goes. I've heard it being justified as a way to compensate for flaws in the Testing System that makes Blacks seem inferior to Whites. The tests do have merit and the only reason Blacks don't seem to do as well as Whites is because of the environment and education system many Blacks(as well as several Whites) have to deal. My proposed solution is this why don't we "Improve the Education System and Environment the children are raised in." Sounds impossible you say, well just look at the Harlem Children's Zone and then tell me it can't be done. That's just one example how things should be done in this(and many other) country. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Saturday, March 31 2007 04:35
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STDs, the ultimate in purposeless illnesses... I was going to go into a bit on that, but I decided to save y'all the pain. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Saturday, March 31 2007 04:30
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Can we all agree that each game had it's pluses and negatives? -------------------- "These sunglasses sure make it difficult to see in the dark, but I refuse to take them off because I'm an American and Americans always wear sunglasses." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 30 2007 11:49
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stupid quote button being next to the edit button [ Friday, March 30, 2007 11:51: Message edited by: LF ] -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 30 2007 11:47
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Socialism... Communism... not much of a line between the two. Much like Capitalism and Imperialism... WARNING: The following is a series of observations(very long ones). Do not read it if you don't feel like it. Ultimately, there are 5 things that separate people: Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, Personality, and Wealth. All of these have real effects on the individual. Of these, Ethnicity is the most trivial. Seriously, black, white, hispanic, asian... doesn't matter. In the end we're all human. Those who generalize or a an entire race are too stupid and lazy to focus their hate on individuals like they're supposed to. Next up is religion. Countless wars have been fought in the name of religion, most of which really had nothing to do with religion. Religion is supposed to be something to fulfill spiritual needs, not an excess to kill a bunch of innocent children and destroy entire towns. Unless it's that other guy's religious believe to kill you, you probly shouldn't been trying to kill him. Then there's gender... Woman are better at doing some things than Men and if a woman does the required amount of work, she should be paid as much as a man. Keep in mind that the inverse is true of Men. Women and Men generally have different, yet diverse interest. No one gender should have complete say in how everything is run, nor should one gender be 2nd class to another. Next we have Wealth. Money is power. Those who have money generally tend to want to have as much of it they can. What they don't have, they want. Unlike race, wealth legitimately has real value when measuring a person. However, since money tends to corrupt people(not that something else wouldn't have), the results of measuring a person with money tends to not be very positive. Left unchecked, a rich person has no fear. This form of checking ironically comes from other rich people. So long as a rivalry among rich people can remain in effect that should be enough to keep the rich from completely enslaving the masses. Finally there's personality, the best measure of a person. We born, to a certain degree we all have a clean slate. Unfortunately, the previously 4 aspects of existence. If you could have a fresh generation that could be raised without those 4 aforementioned measures of society. Remove the preconceptions. Remove the negative upbringing, first started by ignorance then continued by stupidity. Then educate them. Only by doing all of that could humanity even consider possibility of trying to have a decent, let alone ideal, society. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 30 2007 11:09
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quote:Bite me -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 10:46
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I could've sworn that keeping down the blacks was a rich white person thing(ie. Republican)... However, Kurt Russell is in the Libertarian Party and Kurt Russell is The Man(as in the one white guy who personally keeps all the brothers down), so there may be some truth in the whole "Libertarian Party being against blacks thing" Though, for some reason I doubt that a political party that isn't one of the big 2 has much of any real say in what goes on in the US... -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 08:50
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Sal, don't make me drag you off to a Civil War Re-Enactment -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 08:31
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quote:I did the love thing once. Only once. Hopefully it'll never happen again(or at least not bad like that one). 'Sides actually caring for someone else is highly over-rated. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 08:25
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quote:Hell, I don't see the difference between all of them. They'll all rip you off about the same. But that is a good point that I'm going to claim I was going to mention(whether I was or wasn't is somewhat beside the point). Vocational Schools should be far more important in this and all countries. Expecting pretty much everyone to go to a 4 year(or more) university is unrealistic at best. It's unreasonable to expect people who don't do well in a school setting(which they need to redo how that works, too) to go to college, which is a exponentially worse for them. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 08:15
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Exile's spells were better than Geneforge's. -------------------- "These sunglasses sure make it difficult to see in the dark, but I refuse to take them off because I'm an American and Americans always wear sunglasses." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 08:12
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quote:Um, so does that mean my posts aren't long enough? I... could.... add.... more.... dots.... at..... the..... end...... of... every....... word..... to..... lengthen... it.... for... you..................... -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 10:57
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Oh Spiderweb Software, no one must ever know of our forbidden love... oh wait... -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 10:45
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And yet no one complains about IQ tests or for that matter written psychiatric evaluation exams... -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 09:37
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In all truth, viability depends solely on the individuals and the masses. It'll be a long time before human nature will change enough to were anything the resembles a society capable of creating an ideal government that can function and provide for the needs of its people. To achieve all of these things the people and technology must under a dramatic change all at once. Change for the better must be all at once, or not at all. Ironically, change for the worst is more often than not gradual. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 09:25
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Well, it's no surprise to anyone that I'm confused. Anyway for those who don't get it... Rhapsody of Fire - a Symphonic Metal band. Symphonic Metal - take metal add an operatic and classical music feel style to it. Really really flamboyant stuff. Personally, I like symphonic metal(not entirely sure why), but because of it's very strange sound, several people like to dismiss it as "gay", some mean it as lame, and other mean it as homosexual Now, the joke was me ragging on it while blatantly being a fan of it. To those who I managed to offend because of that bit... I didn't mean anything bad by it, so get over it. [ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 09:28: Message edited by: LF ] -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 09:11
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I'm sorry, I thought we'd moved on to defining what an idea society would be like. My mistake -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 09:06
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I suppose, but if you eliminate the companies or make preparation for a political placement illegal and punishable by execution(or field castration). EDIT: Of course, all you have to do is redo the test every year and do it the test up properly and prep courses will be virtually useless [ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 09:10: Message edited by: LF ] -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 08:58
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quote:Depends on your definition of love... I don't think Spiderweb would like mine... 'specially the whole not being able to stop touching it in appropriately thing. Then wondering why Spiderweb doesn't feel for me the same way I do for it. And almost killing people because I got just the slightest feeling that they were being threatening to Spiderweb software. God, I hated being in love... -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 08:48
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I fail to see how fixed skill value is a bad thing. It worked just fine in Exile, while Avernum's skill system is a pain. At a relatively early point a character simply doesn't get enough points to raise a single skill at anything that could be considered by even the most lax imagination as a decent rate. -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 28 2007 08:42
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quote:I was actually thinking something along the lines of doing both. After all, we're talking about an ideal society. And why in the zell would there be a prep test for an aptitude test?! The very concept is almost a contradiction in and of itself -------------------- "I don't understand a word you just said. Try speaking American. It's the only language I understand." Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |