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Title	Off With Their Heads
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Question 1: Energy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 13:59 Profile Homepage #66 quote: Originally written by Strontium: Reserves ARE important because they detail what is presently available to develop. I think Stareye made his semantics point precisely because this statement is false. Your figures list what is presently cheap to use, not what is presently possible to use. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Yom HaShoa in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 06:55 Profile Homepage #34 quote: Originally written by Archmagus Micael: I feel sympathy for the people lost on both sides, both in the nazi Holocaust (see slaughter of Jews and ?romanics?), and the American Holocaust (see atom bomb). This one bugs me. People flip out about the atom bomb, but it was no more devastating than other bombing campaigns during the war. Indeed, the fire-bombings of Tokyo and Dresden were far more gruesome and devastating, and they were among the least horrific parts of that war. (For instance, the invasion of China by the Japanese was among the most brutal war campaigns ever conducted; the battle at Nanking is quite seriously called the Rape of Nanking. On the Eastern European front, entire Russian cities with multi-million person populations were wiped off the map.) The only reason that the atomic bomb was more frightening was that it was a single bomb, but really, does it matter? One bomb dropped by one plane or a thousand dropped by a thousand — if the result is the same, who really cares? People sometimes go off about the "lingering effects" — "The radiation! Oh, the radiation!" they say. Yes, radiation deaths in the forties and fifties were pretty grisly. However, the major effects ended fairly shortly after the war. Hiroshima is a big city today, and I've been there; it's not like walking around there causes your hair to fall out. The Holocaust killed many, many more people without any conceivably useful purpose (ending a war, for instance, was the primary use of the atomic bombings of Japan). It is true that the Holocaust can't be blamed solely on Hitler. He had many people helping him, from the German people who voted for him — and there is much to learn from their mistake, which I think that the Germans today have learned, but others may not — to his lead officers such as Himmler, who have earned their rightful places in the darkest chapters of history books. This is one of the important lessons of the Holocaust, I think: another Hitler will come along someday, and we need to make sure that he is stopped before he can gather the resources and the help that Hitler obtained. [ Thursday, April 27, 2006 07:04: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Question 1: Energy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 06:15 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by Strontium: Whatever powers your house is primarily a fossil fuel. So, electric cars don't replace fossil fuels they are a derivative of them. Hence the problem. Re-read my reply. Fossil fuels are vastly more efficiently processed at a power plant than in your car. It's still a big improvement. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
A4 Review. (link) in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 21:08 Profile Homepage #3 I'm inclined to agree with the review, too. It's good... but I think it has unfulfilled potential. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
is this game worth playing in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 21:03 Profile Homepage #27 What constitutes a major transgression for a member: + Discussion of illegal activities. Consider this a friendly warning. This is a family show. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Question 1: Energy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 21:00 Profile Homepage #55 quote: Originally written by Leena: Unless you are talking about the car owners owning battery chargers as well, but wouldn't that cost a great deal of money? Every electric car sold today (and there are a number — I've ridden in one, albeit one owned by the late Jef Raskin) comes with a charger. I see no reason why that would change, since, as Thuryl said, the chargers aren't terribly expensive in comparison with the car. quote: Originally written by Strontium: With respect to electric cars/plug ins leading to higher fuel efficiency: where does the electricity come from? Solar? Nuclear? Hydro? It comes from whatever powers your house, which is usually a damned lot more efficient and less polluting than an individual engine. Making energy at a power plant is more efficient than making energy in your car. quote: Originally written by PoD person: almost every basic necessity requires a car trip: groceries, school, other child-care, and home-improvement supplies are all a 5-10 minute drive (i.e. a 30-60 minute walk) from my house. This is one of the few things that gives me hope for electric cars yet. Consider the electric minivan: a soccer mom has absolutely no need for a car that drives more than 100 miles in one shot, and her car is likely the second or third car that the family owns, so for more extensive driving, the other cars can be used. I can see marketing such a thing to rich people. Drew's probably onto the right track, though: plug-in hybrids exist now that get absurd gas mileage. Between plug-in hybrids for private cars, biodiesel for big trucks and shipping, and (eventually) hydrogen for everything bigger, we may be able to significantly reduce the amount of petroleum used in transportation. Of course, this will require the market hemorrhaging gas prices more than it already has, but I think that's a given. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Targeting a custom ability in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 19:57 Profile Homepage #2 Garrison's right. We've asked Jeff for such a call, but it has not been granted yet. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Targeting a custom ability in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 19:57 Profile Homepage #2 Garrison's right. We've asked Jeff for such a call, but it has not been granted yet. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Question 1: Energy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 07:03 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas: *You left out one problem. How long would it take to recharge a car battery? Filling a gas tank takes about a minute depending on how big the tank is. Recharging batteries takes a long* time. I left it out because it's not actually a problem, except on really long road trips. Cars could be recharged overnight after a day's worth of driving and be ready to go the next morning. If the battery can hold a day's worth of driving, taking eight hours to recharge is not a problem. The only issue is that one would not be able to do two "tanks" of an electric battery in a day (which, again, would only be a problem on long road trips), and I read somewhere that there are prototypes of batteries now that can charge in an hour or so, overcoming even that obstacle. It doesn't really matter, anyway. Electric cars aren't viable for most people right now, so all we can say at the moment is "They could be very cool someday, and we should keep putting money into research." -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00**
Question 1: Energy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 04:55 Profile Homepage #24 I don't think that there will be any one new solution to the world's energy problems. I think it will be lots of little things. I think that we need to build more fuel-efficient engines — because in most cases, the technology exists and we just haven't bothered to use it — and invest more heavily in hybrids and (god forbid!) genuine electric cars. Apparently there are only two things holding back electric cars right now: they are somewhat pricey ($30,000-$50,000 range, normally) and their batteries don't hold as much energy as a conventional car. That is, one has to refuel (charge at an outlet) every 100 miles, instead of every 300 or 400. If we can double or triple the capacity of electric car batteries — not an easy feat, but not inconceivable — and get some chargers installed at major gas stations, electric cars might be viable. As it is, we need to encourage hybrids, which are more immediately useful. I think market forces are doing this right now: $3 per gallon gasoline is making a lot of people care about fuel efficiency who didn't before. I'd like to think that we can encourage mass transit, but I tend to suspect that it will only work in certain situations. I know that getting around on the mass transit in the SF Bay Area is really, really slow, and driving is much faster, so we're probably going to have drivers for as long as driving is physically possible. There are people right now who are equipping their houses with solar panels and becoming completely energy-independent. These people supply the electric company with energy, rather than the other way around. Such systems are expensive in initial investments, but if one gets a loan, the loan payments are less expensive than one's energy bill was. We should encourage this by making some part of it tax-deductable or something. There are limits on the people who can do this; it doesn't work for people living in apartments, for example. However, I suspect that it's another piece of the puzzle. I have heard that the problem with nuclear power is that it's just too expensive, that it's simply more cost-efficient to reduce usage than it is to build nuclear plants. I don't know anything about it beyond having read it, but I'm inclined to believe that building a few nuclear plants is not a bad idea anyway. We're going to need major energy sources, and coal and oil aren't going to work for us indefinitely. I can imagine (eventually) hydrogen being used in things that are much bigger than cars, like airplanes or something, things in which a shift to fully electric or biodiesel won't work as well, but that sort of technology is far off still. I guess what I'm saying is that a full, comprehensive solution isn't available yet, but we can take some positive steps right now anyway. [ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 05:00: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
I wish upon a star in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 17:49 Profile Homepage #17 This topic never had any point to begin with, and now it's even worse. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
"'s and .'s in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 17:41 Profile Homepage #34 We are talking about two things. Hence my statement that there are two reasons to end a sentence with a preposition. Technically, the rule applies to both, although most English teachers will only correct you for the "which... with" rule. There's no particular reason that either rule exists, though. There are reasons that some rules exist (to "do good" and to "do well" being two different things, for instance), but there is no particularly good reason that the preposition rule exists. It certainly sounds more formal to follow the rule than not to, though. EDIT: And this doesn't particularly ape Classical Latin's word order, which was very, very free anyway. It apes Medieval Latin's word order, which was pretty artificial to begin with. [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 17:43: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
The Afterlife in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 15:14 Profile Homepage #2 I found the afterlife in Tomb of the Taskmaker really entertaining. IIRC, there were four puzzles/challenges, and you had to complete one of them each time you died. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
"Policing" ourselves? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 15:02 Profile Homepage #81 After a certain point, the answer to the question "Why" is "That question has been asked under a false premise." -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SDF Max value in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 14:58 Profile Homepage #21 The numeric input script, by the way, can be found in the High Level Party Maker, in town 2, in state 12. If you want to use it, feel free. For displaying specialized text in dialogue, do the same thing, but use message_dialog instead of print_str. (EDIT: Which is what Thuryl said a minute before me. Darn him. Darn him to heck.) [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 14:59: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SDF Max value in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 14:58 Profile Homepage #21 The numeric input script, by the way, can be found in the High Level Party Maker, in town 2, in state 12. If you want to use it, feel free. For displaying specialized text in dialogue, do the same thing, but use message_dialog instead of print_str. (EDIT: Which is what Thuryl said a minute before me. Darn him. Darn him to heck.) [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 14:59: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
"'s and .'s in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 14:54 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by wz. As: But those aren't really prepositions in German; they're separable prefixes. Well, the "prepositions" that I was talking about in English aren't really prepositions either. There was a joke in a Naked Gun movie concerning a woman of questionable chastity saying, "Haven't you ever wanted to blow everyone in an entire stadium... up?" This, I think, illustrates the idea well: "to blow up" means something entirely different from "to blow," and moreover, it can be used intransitively: "The bomb blew up!" In that example, the "preposition" (so to speak) has no object and doesn't really function as a preposition at all: it functions to change the meaning of the verb (just as anrufen is different from rufen). Thus, these prepositions in English are more analogous to the prefixes in most other Indo-European languages (at least Latin, Greek, Polish, German, and Russian all have them) than they are to traditional prepositions. There are two reasons why one might end a sentence with a preposition: first, to take one of these non-prepositions more closely with a verb ("This is the pen which I write with"); and second, to sandwich the direct object between the verb and the non-preposition, as in the Naked Gun example. The former happens in analogy to all Indo-European languages, because "to write with [something]" and "to write [something]" are different, and the "with" is like one of those prefixes. The latter seems reasonable to me because sandwiching things to indicate that they should be taken closely with the surrounding elements is almost a law of Latin and Greek style, and it's very normal in spoken English. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Old windows graphics in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:00 Profile Homepage #3 Yeah, direct all further discussion here. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
A Change of Structure in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:56 Profile Homepage #154 Have I truly started that many topics? How odd. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SDF Max value in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #17 My point was that you can take your script and modify it slightly by copying and pasting something that already exists, and you'll have an even better script. I'm not saying that your script is bad; I'm saying that it would be easy to make it even better. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SDF Max value in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #17 My point was that you can take your script and modify it slightly by copying and pasting something that already exists, and you'll have an even better script. I'm not saying that your script is bad; I'm saying that it would be easy to make it even better. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Power Corrupts in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:52 Profile Homepage #134 TM, he wasn't making an argument. He was preaching. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
"Policing" ourselves? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:47 Profile Homepage #76 If one is using words properly, one does distinguish between the sort of "theory" that Newton had or Einstein had and the sort of "theory" that intelligent design is: Newton's theory was a "scientific" theory, and intelligent design is not. Scientific theories make testable predictions. Intelligent design predicts a lack of evidence. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
"'s and .'s in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:41 Profile Homepage #26 The split infinitive rule is stupid, I think. It is true that Latin-speakers, not having a phrasal infinitive, couldn't split their infinitives, but if they could have, they would have. They separated words that agreed with each other all the time (i.e. "Dominus malum verberat servum"). I also am opposed to the not-ending-sentences-with-prepositions rule, because prepositions have always been taken more closely with the verbs that govern them than with their objects (again, cf. Latin, in which the prepositions are prefixed on the verbs: adloquor). Also, in other Germanic languages (like, say, German), ending a sentence with a preposition is a rule, not an error: "Ich rufe meinen Bruder an." [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 06:43: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
SDF Max value in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:33 Profile Homepage #15 That was an odd reply. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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