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cats or dogs? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 22:14 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Drew:

I like cats because they are low maintenance and only half-tame.
Yes. They're friendly but they're not co-dependent.

—Alorael, who also likes the fact that he has never known a cat that stole food, made loud noises all the time (quiet noises, though...) or knocked people over. Hostile cats are usually just invisible cats.
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The Conservative Shift in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:55 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:


quote:
Originally written by Ben
and all talk of Jesus is banned from our public schools.
It's a state-operated venture. There are plenty of places to pray. The classroom is no such place, and every time prayer is conducted, the big lie of america's being the christian paradise is steadily furthered.
Talk of Jesus is allowed in public school. Expressing support for Christianity over other religions is not. Actually, expressing support for any religion is not, period.

—Alorael, who would feel uncomfortable in any religious context in a public, non-religious setting.
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cats or dogs? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:46 Profile Homepage #6
This poll is actually a step up. It's not relevant to anything instead of being relevant to somewhere else.

—Alorael, who is a cat person.
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The Conservative Shift in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 17:57 Profile Homepage #19
There is a time and place to hate Ash for his faith. The time is not now and the place is somewhere that doesn't have Spiderweb's CoC.

His "victory dance" was stating that he is fascinated by the shift. The "real or imagined" was in response to others, including me, who denied the overwhelming size of the shift. Ash didn't even bring up religion until you did except to mention that religious values are part of the shift.

If you're going to debate, debate actual points raised and stay away from the ad hominem.

—Alorael, who brings you this message on behalf of puppies, kittens, and other frequent victims of acts of God.
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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 14:30 Profile Homepage #17
"...Lead us to temptation and then away again!"

Suppose somehow someone were prevented from having the opportunity to sin or resist the temptation to sin. Would that person be a good person? Would the preventers be good (assuming no cruel and unusual methods of restraint)? What about that big deal issue of free will?

—Alorael, who is reasonably sure that fetuses can't sin and humans almost always do. Aren't an unborn baby's chances of getting a free trip to Heaven better than a born baby's?
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What Movies Are You Looking Forward To? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 13:46 Profile Homepage #27
Eragon has the popularity to succeed as a movie. That's a shame, because Eragon is the worst of derivative fantasy. (Actually, not the worst. It's just your typical stock fantasy plus hype.) If the author weren't so young it would never have been published at all.

—Alorael, who wouldn't mind if it didn't mean that far more deserving works of fantasy were getting overlooked. Fantasy and science fiction are perennially judged by the merits of the worst members of the categories, and this doesn't help at all.
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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 13:42 Profile Homepage #93
Oops, yes.

Now I get my choice of death by fish or death by fluffy turtle.

—Alorael, who can scarcely comprehend the horrors of being forced to spend the day in the company of friends.
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Eep! Christians! (Split from Christian Radio) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 13:39 Profile Homepage #141
The reason doctors are expensive is because they undergo expensive training so what they say is based in reality. It may be shocking, but in many cases doctors who are paid wholly by the government in countries with socialized medicine give the same recommendations as American doctors.

Now, let's look at iatrogenic diseases.

106,000: Non-error, negative effects of drugs

Drugs have toxicity. Doctors know that. Patients know that too, because they are required to give informed consent. If the drug is approved (non-error), the toxicity is lower than the risk of the disease.

80,000: Infections in hospitals

How many are from invasive procedures that have a known risk of infection?

45,000: Other errors in hospitals

"Other errors" include what? But even if this and all the lower ambiguous groups are real iatrogenic deaths, that's a quarter of the amount stated. I have low confidence in this page.

I particularly like "First, most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients." Another doctor once said, "I don't like to send patients to the ICU [Intensive Care Unit]. They die too often there." Unsurprisingly, patients hospitalized for serious conditions may die, and they may die under the care of physicians, which makes the death potentially iatrogenic.

—Alorael, whose question about Hell still wasn't answered. 'Damnation' was and is very different in Judaism, particularly in light of the limited duration. If "[Christ] took care of all of the punishments and sacrifices that are demanded from breaking the law," why is the punishment for breaking the law by sinning now harsher than ever? Everyone is still expected to sin and repent!
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Windows version in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 13:21 Profile Homepage #24
The surprise isn't low number oldbies. They're called invisible The surprise is when they return to post again a few years later. That means two things: they're still using the same browser on the same computer with the same cookies, and Arctic didn't eat them.

—Alorael, who would never dare underestimate the impact of the latter.
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my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 09:09 Profile Homepage #66
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

Well, when you think about it, the most common letter in the English language on Earth is the letter E.
En español en la Tierra, la letra E es la más común.

—Alorael, who would prefer to have fewer arbitrarily renamed objects thrown around. If it's a bison, call it a bison. If it's a scimitar, call it a scimitar.
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The Conservative Shift in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 09:01 Profile Homepage #10
The numbers have shifted in favor of conservatives a little bit, but the real advancement has been in conservative planning and organization. Right now the conservatives have all the most skillful people to make the middle lean conservative and the people who are conservative on any issue support all conservative causes.

—Alorael, who expects that this will last only as long as conservative leadership stays skillful (not good!) and liberal leadership stays relatively poor or quiet. Then politics will shift again.
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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 08:53 Profile Homepage #89
I believe the original fluffy turtle was a stuffed turtle belonging to ADoS, which was named (by vote) Lampost. Somehow Lampost acquired companions, and now things are what they are.

—Alorael, who never quite understood what happend to sanity before there were fluffy turtles to take care of it.
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STUPIDEST POST EVER!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 08:50 Profile Homepage #67
If you're depending on tumors for nourishment, you're waiting a little too long to be helpful.

—Alorael, who would also be careful of teratomas. You never know what might end up in your meal.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
buying of avernum 4 in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 08:46 Profile Homepage #3
This thread might by another census, this time of Spidwebbers who registered A4. If so, that's not going to be a terribly representative sample of A4 buyers.

—Alorael, who believes Jeff Vogel's septuagenarian eskimo demographic is much higher among non forumers.
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Census ][ in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 08:44 Profile Homepage #24
Means of transportation to work/school: My work comes to me on foot! If it didn't, I suppose I'd take a cara.

A RL nickname not previously mentioned here:

Worst choice of Halloween costume you've ever had: All my ideas are good ideas. Implementation may be lacking, but the choice is always right.

A mythological figure you identify with: Thersites

A Simpsons character you identify with: I do not identify with television.

Favorite Sesame Street character: I do not identify with television, but I can make an exception for Sesame Street. Bert.

Favorite Spidweb game character: Khoth. Or maybe Pearlblossom.

Favorite (English) word: Only one?

Favorite cereal: Life

—Alorael, who is less amused (and amusing) than he would like.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Stuck at samuels camp in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 08:33 Profile Homepage #2
Sneaking will save the day here.

As far as quests go, it shouldn't matter if you completed all of them already or not. As long as you've already visited Fort Avernum and gained access to the pylon travel network it won't be any trouble at all to return to the Eastern Gallery or anywhere else you've been without sneaking past the shade again.

—Alorael, who recommends spending a minute or two looking around between the tunnel's exit and Almaria for the pylon right there. He missed it on his first time through, and it's really much more convenient to find it.
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age of empires 3 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 20:42 Profile Homepage #1
Why not ask on forums not dedicated to an entirely different set of games?

—Alorael, who will lock this thread and this thread only. Please, please do not spam in the future, though. Many topics that serve no real purpose are neither helpful nor wanted.
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What Movies Are You Looking Forward To? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 20:39 Profile Homepage #12
The Lions of Al-Rassan

—Alorael, who has low expectations but high hopes.
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Eep! Christians! (Split from Christian Radio) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 12:14 Profile Homepage #126
Treating symptoms instead of disease without acknowledging that that is what you're doing and accepting the consequences of it is either a mistake malpractice. The fact that rest and recuperation take too much time in our busy world aren't medical problems. They're societal.

I'm guilty of refusing to slow down for a cold (or occasionally a fever), and that might make my colds and fevers last longer, but how is that a terrible failure as long as I know that that's what I'm doing?

quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

Isn't smallpox one of those diseases they recently began to warn us the vaccinations may not much longer work for reliably? There is debated evidence suggesting various childhood immunizations can cause brain damage or other damage. It's a questionable practice with associated risks. I'm not entirely against immunizations...but mostly.
Khoth has the smallpox vaccination problems right. We haven't had to make or use the vaccines in so long that we might not have any reliable vaccine now.

The controversy over thimerosal in vaccines is very much based on debated evidence. I'm no longer quite up to date on the issue, but I believe thimerosal is no longer permitted basically because the regulatory agencies have thrown up their hands and accepted that public opinion is against thimerosal. The link between ethylmercury and autism has been rejected by health agencies, but nobody can prove anything either way.

Whatever the consequences of vaccination may be, it's very clear that the consequences of not vaccinating are far higher. Remember when polio used to be a very real threat to everyone? Who is the youngest person you know suffering from paralysis from polio now?

—Alorael, who doesn't think most first worlders will be hurt by the loss of thimerosal in vaccines. Its developing countries that lose access to large stocks of vaccines without an effective antimicrobial agent.
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Favorite Charecter? in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 09:46 Profile Homepage #25
"Shee" is correct, and it's a really obvious pronunciation if you rearrange some letters and remove some other letters.

—Alorael, who replayed the beginning of Nethergate looking for pronunciation guides. He still can't find anything that tells you that sidhe consists of two sounds, neither of which are what you think they are.
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To sink or not to sink, that is the question in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 09:38 Profile Homepage #17
I envision something like this, only as the entire GUI.

—Alorael, who could see the benefits of an operating system that makes you do what it wants rather than vice versa. Except that technique has probably already been patented.
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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 09:37 Profile Homepage #46
I don't think Djur is banned. He's just absent, and while present he was multiaccountal. He didn't do quadruple digits.

—Alorael, who would like to know if an instant Synergy post generator can be put in place. Maybe collectively run?
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my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 08:40 Profile Homepage #58
This thread has now made me laugh and made me cry. That's not bad for only two pages and more elves than I usually want in my posts.

—Alorael, who has not yet been made to wish for the sweet mercy of death. The direction of conversation is certainly heading there, though.
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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 08:38 Profile Homepage #9
I think Bush has done a decent job of nation screwing himself, but that opinion is by no means universal.

—Alorael, who is very tempted to reject out of hand any candidate to seems to allow any religion to strongly determine political policy. Unfortunately, in this lovely era of religion-tinged vote grabbing, it can be hard to tell who believes and he just mouths the words. (Bush shows several strong signs of being in the latter category.)
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Denied! in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 08:33 Profile Homepage #12
But my credo is RW über alles. RWG must never descend!

—Alorael, who may have to seriously look into the ever-moving forum. Think of the terrors the world would know if it were impossible to discern where or when RW would appear next!
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