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Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 12:46 Profile Homepage #53
It was the Gilded Age, *i. The Guilded Age would probably be the 15th to 18th centuries.

—Alorael, who sees a fundamental problem with a lot of the arguments against Tully here. You are all assuming that he agrees that poverty and ignorance are bad in and of themselves. His attitude towards "weakness" makes that seem like a dubious prospect. Care to weigh in, Ulleg?
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Ice cream... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 12:37 Profile Homepage #13
Favorite Ice Cream flavor? Mint chocolate chip
Length of Major Sleep? 10 hours is my limit, and it's unusual. I'm a slowly recovering insomniac.
Favorite Arcade Game? Asteroids
Favorite movie made from a cartoon? None come to mind.
Favorite place to nap? I don't nap as a general rule, but when I do it's usually on a sofa.
Favorite print cartoon? Calvin and Hobbes. Foxtrot or Doonesbury out of cartoons still being drawn.
Do you eat ice-cream during a cold weather? Sure.
Favorite hour of the DAY to sleep? I don't sleep during the day, so I can't say I have a favorite time to do it.
Favorite Age? Meaning what was the year of your life that you enjoyed the most. Every year of my life has been better than the preceding year, and I'd like to keep it that way.

—Alorael, who believes his increasing happiness may correlate with his increasing skribbane intake. (And isn't that dragging out a tired old joke?)
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Canadian Citizenship Test. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 08:29 Profile Homepage #11
15/20

—Alorael, who prefers "Canada is Really Big" as the national anthem. Go Arrogant Worms!
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Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 08:22 Profile Homepage #47
Education is phenominally expensive and heavily subsidized by governments and endowments. For the rich privatization wouldn't make much difference. Private schools are already expensive and wealth is good for affording things like this. For the middle class it would become more expensive, but not ruinously so.

The poor are the ones who get screwed as usual. First, although schools in poor, urban areas tend to struggle, they do get money. They wouldn't have any such source of money in a private system, so they'd either get worse or collapse entirely. Nobody would want to start new schools because it's not a sound investment. Then, since you can't mandate paying for education, I think I significant percentage of the most disadvantaged would be cut out of education entirely. Parents wouldn't pay even if children wanted to go.

You can counter by saying that it's okay to have large uneducated masses. I think most people here strongly disagree. Actually, I think most people in general strongly disagree.

—Alorael, who doesn't believe in rags to riches, or at least rags to comfort, proven by anecdote. Yes, people do it. Their successes are inspirations. Most people don't do it, and their failures are warnings of problems that should be fixed.
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Uncle Sam Wants You? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 08:10 Profile Homepage #33
I think Vietnam broke that one wide open by making it clear that waging war and declaring war are in no way linked.

—Alorael, who wonders why declarations of war were never really defined. And, for that matter, why some countries don't bother to declare peace long after their wars end. Portugal and the Netherlands are getting close to their quincentennial of hostilities.
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November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 08:04 Profile Homepage #41
And you owe it all to Olar. Without his flamebait, intentional or otherwise, there would be far less angry chatter.

—Alorael, who submits that in a world of perfect harmony no one would post at all. Of course everyone would also cease to exist. Nirvana is like that.
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Life! I give you life!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 07:56 Profile Homepage #8
It's a travesty that constitutions have just become some kind of super-legislation. This belongs in the constitution even less than flag burning. I'd vote yes, but this is really a legislative issue and should stay there.

—Alorael, who would like to have someone propose that any constitutional amendment be successfully passed twice with a period of no less than six years in between. Amendments don't need to happen fast and they don't need to happen over hot-button issues. (Yes, this is a facetious suggestion. A better one would be nice.)
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Life! I give you life!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 27 2006 07:56 Profile Homepage #7
It's a travesty that constitutions have just become some kind of super-legislation. This belongs in the constitution even less than flag burning. I'd vote yes, but this is really a legislative issue and should stay there.

—Alorael, who would like to have someone propose that any constitutional amendment be successfully passed twice with a period of no less than six years in between. Amendments don't need to happen fast and they don't need to happen over hot-button issues. (Yes, this is a facetious suggestion. A better one would be nice.)
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Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 19:56 Profile Homepage #36
Regulated business != Communism. I don't think anyone here would argue that communism does anyone any good.

TM might, but he's not here.

—Alorael, who really wants to know Thuryl's view. After all, it's hard to demand a right to property when there's no justification for having a right to life in the first place. Postnatal abortion for all!
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Uncle Sam Wants You? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 18:01 Profile Homepage #21
19/20. And I was just talking to someone about naturalization, too. The name of the form never came up.

—Alorael, who has to admit getting lucky with the voting rights amendments. He was about 50% sure, but he doesn't have the order entirely memorized.
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Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 17:53 Profile Homepage #19
Stating your opinion on politics on these game boards is preposterous. Since we're doing it, Lego has as much right as the rest of us.

I agree that the government's job is to protect people, but I include more than just military and criminal protection. Do you really think everyone would stop working if they had 1% of their income taken as taxes? I doubt it. How about 10%? 20%? 50%? I don't know how much you can take from people before they lose motivation, but I think it's generally quite a lot, especially if you spin it right (don't ever let them have the money!) and give services in return.

Taxing business may drive some away, but taxing the people and socializing insurance coverage takes a burden away from companies and draws them in. Believe it or not, trickle down economics don't work.

—Alorael, who really doesn't understand your criteria for "weak" except apparently "poor." Throwing around apparently pseudo-Darwinian terms will get you into all kinds of trouble with ambiguity. Say what you mean: the poor deserve nothing they don't earn for themselves.
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Fresh meat for the Cultists, or, goodbye sunshine in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 17:40 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Who put you in charge?
That's right! You're not the boss of me!

—Alorael, who submits only to the will of the Dark Lord White, irony inevitable, and the implants. You, sirs, are neither of the above.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Good news! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 12:31 Profile Homepage #83
The graphics are mostly the same ones that have been appearing since GF1, but you get new appearances for your character and some very nice new special effects.

—Alorael, who again could speak with more authority if he were more familiar with older Geneforges.
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Hang 'em high! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 12:30 Profile Homepage #14
I can agree with the last of the changes, I think. The first is a good idea in that it distinguishes between major and minor offenses, but I'm not convinced that raising sentences is the best solution. The rest are garbage.

—Alorael, who therefore votes no. Maybe he should head to Desperance now.
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The FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 08:45 Profile Homepage #42
12321.

[Edit: I should get a post with only one word right.]

—Alorael, who has absolutely nothing to add except more posts. He will enjoy this fleeting beauty while it lasts.

[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 08:46: Message edited by: Senile Delinquent ]
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Avernums how many people do you prefer to use in each of the Avernum games? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 08:37 Profile Homepage #42
There has always been apple-option-escape. Sure, it had a better than even chance of causing calamitous freezing, but it was an option.

—Alorael, who wishes BoE monsters had Luck. Nothing says fun encounters like Doomguards that don't die.
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MCMLIX or BUST! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 26 2006 08:30 Profile Homepage #8
Back in the good old days we used to help each other out when reaching those fantastic posting goals. I think in the spirit of brotherhood and spam we should join hands, minds, and implants in order to make our posting dreams a reality.

—Alorael, who need not mention that the more spam there is the more frequently Alex gets to exercise (or at least reuse) his wit.
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November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 19:51 Profile Homepage #22
The members who join and never post are what we call invisible newbies. They tend to get eaten by Arctic, who isn't here anymore. Why? Maybe because it's a good season for invisibile newbies.

—Alorael, who also has heard disturbing rumors of other causes of absence. He'll ignore all such until forced to do otherwise.
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How to raise skills when level. in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 19:44 Profile Homepage #27
Not in E1, but Identify was added by E2.

—Alorael, who doesn't think it's so terribly helpful because you don't start with it and can't get it until Chapter 4.
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Fresh meat for the Cultists, or, goodbye sunshine in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 19:42 Profile Homepage #2
Chessboard of bestow great honor!

—Alorael, who notes that there is currently unanimity of opinion. It's not clear what it means, but the implants are working properly.
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The FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 11:02 Profile Homepage #33
If we were in Certando I'd take you up on that, Salmon, but I think on Spiderweb it's more appropriate to engage in monomachy. One avern each and only one survivor.

—Alorael, who will give a cookie and a half to anyone who catches the references and the etymological humor.

[ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:04: Message edited by: Senile Delinquent ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Another one in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 08:26 Profile Homepage #2
To reveal a cliffhanger? To reveal something unpostable?

—Alorael, who wishes there were more SEP propaganda in Spiderweb games. You'd think there would be a few SEP members thrown into Exile/Avernum for not getting along so well with the status quo.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
October Posting Stats Thread in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 08:21 Profile Homepage #38
quote:
Originally written by Lenny:

quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Oscar Wilde:

quote:
Originally written by Pope John XX:

quote:
Originally written by Oscar Wilde:

quote:
Originally written by Guardian Magma:

Look who is back! :)
I didn't notice the Pope around here...
You didn't?
No.

Wow. My posts are getting spammier, and less exciting by the minute. Time was I could kill a thread with my humour and wit. Now... now??

Who knows.

(And 10 points to the first person who quotes this and says "Me".)
Me :P
You don't miss out on an opportunity to spam, do you?
I think it has less to do with spamming than continuing the pyramid quoting. And that's about enough of that, I think.

—Alorael, who has made his point and his pyramid and who can therefore rest easy knowing that his work here is done. Huzzah.
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The FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 08:19 Profile Homepage #29
Fine, go ahead and spam Spiderweb, but leave the English language alone! It didn't do anything to you!

—Alorael, who is proud to be the role model for entire generations of useless producers of content-free posts interspersed with annoying gimmicks.
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How to raise skills when level. in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 08:03 Profile Homepage #22
It's not nice to talk about a lady's age, but I'm pretty sure ef has you beaten there.

—Alorael, who can think of quite a few older Spiderwebbers. They're not always the ones you expect. Evol lurks in mysterious places.
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