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The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, October 25 2006 00:51 Profile #12
http://alec.desperance.net/photography/01.JPG

[ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 00:52: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ]
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It began in New London in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 21:57 Profile #28
This doesn't have as much to do with Bush as you think, Zeviz. The Republican leadership has been tacking towards the authoritarian end of the spectrum, which is to the clear benefit of various 'libertarians' or other neo-conservative scum.

Who, oddly enough, that Republican leadership seems to be primarily recruited from.

If I were a skeptical man, I'd think that the preposterous behavior of Bush in his last term has been a special kind of Trojan horse - the mountain of egg from the present Administration will find its way to the face of the religious right rather than the corporate supremacists who have profited most from it.

In fact, they'll probably become the Republican mainstream again after the RR has been allowed to self-destruct as it does every decade or so.
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It began in New London in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 00:02 Profile #16
The government can evoke eminent domain to purchase land below its market value because and only because it possesses a certain mandate: to serve the interests of its constituents with development in the public interest.

Schools, roads, airports, and other public works projects are not, generally speaking, particularly profitable - no matter how inexpensive the land on which they are built may be. Exercising eminent domain to build those helps fulfill a government mandate that might otherwise go unsatisfied.

The only benefit accrued by the use of eminent domain to transfer land within the private sector is to bring profit to whoever the beneficiaries happen to be. It satisfies no particular mandate, enjoys no particular legitimacy, and is just dumb tyranny.

Tullegolar, I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
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It began in New London in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Thursday, October 19 2006 15:35 Profile #6
If I am to understand correctly, this retards the power of the state to exercise eminent domain in development of private industry, right?

If so, yes. If it's the opposite, no.

We have an initiative here in Nevada called TASC that I'm surprised hasn't gotten national press. It's two-pronged: one is a law to prevent any tax increases without something preposterous like a 2/3 majority or a statewide election or soemthing like that, another is a law that treats a failure to vote on any ballot measure as a vote against that measure.

In other words, the idea is to legally transmogrify Nevada into a corporate fief.

They flew the signature-collectors in from out of state at the movement's expense, pseudo-legally collected thousands of signatures (generally in private property without seeking a right to do so), and then paid them by the signature. (Something like $5 per, too - really good money.)

Thankfully, the Nevada Supreme Court struck the initiave down, because it is baldly unconstitutional. It's still kind of scary, though.
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Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, October 18 2006 17:55 Profile #31
It appears I won't be posting on Polaris any more.

Kind of a relief, really.
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What have you been reading lately? in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Monday, October 16 2006 21:12 Profile #171
Alan Moore's Watchmen. If you haven't read it already, what the hell is wrong with you?
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Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Monday, October 16 2006 20:51 Profile #42
quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

Tyranicus: Why don't you cry some more, hippy! The rest of the world just can't handle the customary system, so they use a system based on the number ten so... what... they can count on their fingers? The metric system is, as Tullegolite philosophy dictates, a tool of the weak. I mean, look at the evidence: which country uses the customary system? In my eyes, it seems that when a nation uses the customary measurement system, it is a sure path to becoming the world's sole superpower.
Jamaica is a superpower?
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No Harm Done: The Question of Morality in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, October 15 2006 21:18 Profile #61
quote:
Originally written by Spookee Salmon:

Beauty, and morality, lies in the eyes of the beholder. I may see actions as amoral that another finds immoral, and the actor finds to be moral. That is the banality of civilization. Even in the search for conformity, it is our differences that allow our society to grow and prosper.

:P
This is relativism, and why it works.

The flip side of that is whether you can accept the typical trial case for the boundaries of cultural relativism: female circumcision or something similarly horrible.
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No Harm Done: The Question of Morality in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, October 15 2006 18:34 Profile #56
KANT x BENTHAM
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high arts in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Thursday, October 12 2006 22:34 Profile #24
quote:
Originally written by Drew:

quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

The South has artistic performances? That's news to me.
You are the reason liberals lose elections.
Funny - seems to me they tend to lose in the primaries nowadays.

I wonder whose fault that might be.
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high arts in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Thursday, October 12 2006 08:18 Profile #12
Unless there's something I'm missing here, I'm going to be uncharacteristic and say the worry about offending is unreasonable.

I'm of the opinion anti-Islamicism (like anti-Catholicism in England and, to a lesser extent, here) is almost exclusively not based on contempt for the religion (which it does sorta deserve) but for the people who follow it (who do not).

I have no problem with something being anti-Islam, because Islam is as ridiculous as any other religion. I do have a problem with things being anti-Muslim, and that seems to be the way the wind has been blowing in Europe. :(

[ Thursday, October 12, 2006 08:19: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ]
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Who do you love, baby? in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, October 8 2006 23:49 Profile #1
I voted for the boneless, venomous monstrosity.

Then I changed my mind because she banned me and Djur over a JeffKism and voted for Spider instead.
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I Am Engaged in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, October 8 2006 16:40 Profile #29
quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

quote:
Originally written by saunders:

It appears our friend Arctic is now married, as well.
...what to?

And congrats, Alec. Hope you have lots of kids. :)
She's no more interested in bearing children than I am in fathering them. One of the reasons we work out so well, really.
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I Am Engaged in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Thursday, October 5 2006 14:18 Profile #15
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

So you finally found someone who would fix you that sandwich, huh?

Congratulations, good luck, and all that other fun stuff.

Dikiyoba.
Don't think this lets you off the hook! *shakes fist*
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The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, October 4 2006 22:08 Profile #58
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

Ode to A4

-S-

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS IN EXILE (Mommy, what’s “night?”)

THE PUNCHLINE: SPIDERWEB SOFTWARE
IMAGE(http://www.themoderatevoice.com/files/joe-oreillymad.jpg)
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I Am Engaged in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, October 4 2006 21:22 Profile #0
It's a lovely thing.
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Happy Birthday!! in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Tuesday, October 3 2006 12:01 Profile #10
quote:
Originally written by The Unilateral Church of Eschaton:

—Alorael, who has a sudden urge to visit Polaris.
QFT
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Monday, October 2 2006 21:16 Profile #140
Yeah, now I'm beginning to see the salience of Aran's objection to ADoS's logo. It just clashes with the rest of the layout for some reason.

TGM's newest, on the other hand, looks stunning.
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, October 1 2006 22:58 Profile #108
Aran, blogomite son of a parapsychologist from a country with humanity beaten into it mere decades ago, is paralyzed by that most fashionable of fears in this age of Wikipedian 'neutrality': the fear of an opinion voiced without some fraudulent kowtow to balance.

In this case, it involves periodic and unnecessary design suggestions given to a creative group that have already stopped working in recognition of a logo he does not want to use.

Had he merely said 'I do not want to use the split surface logo', or even better given specific reasons why, you would presumably be working on new ones instead of promoting that one.

But he is soliciting a logo for a Wiki, and German. One can only hope for so much.
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Jive Turkey in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Saturday, September 30 2006 21:16 Profile #28
quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

Using the CIA Factbook is garbage reasoning. Use something that is real. :)
The fact that you poited out how crappy the CIA's reasoning is and not Amnesty's just proves how crappy your reasoning is.
It takes someone who has evolved beyond any primitive human vetiges like shame to go after Amnesty International for political reasons. IMAGE(http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/icons/icon14.gif) Gold star.

EDIT: Caveat for the rest of the post: I don't care about your wack-ass examples of how biased Amnesty International is. They are biased only against horrific abuse, and there is no other agenda its critics have any interest in defending. Do not quote me think-tank statistics or analyses or articles. Please do not bother with any of that. I will not dignify whatever fascist garbage you dredge out of whichever nameless moral abyss you inhabit with any response but quiet scorn.

quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

EDIT: That last sentance in your post just indicates your approval and imitation of Amnesty's policy on international affairs, by the way.
No, it indicates a good, solid grip on who you are and what you stand for. You're a rabid bigot; you consider genocide your country's prerogative and get angry not at being accused of it but at being denied the right to it.

You're not only wrong here, but you are wrong in every substantive discussion you have ever butted into with your ignorant, violent opinion. We're all stupider for having heard from you on any topic of remote importance to the real world. In fact, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that the Earth is poorer for hosting you.

And hosting is exactly the correct word, you sanguinary parasite.

Honest to God, in all seriousness: Amnesty International? You God-damn reptile. Find whatever hole it is you wriggled out of after you hatched and crawl back in there, would you?

[ Saturday, September 30, 2006 21:42: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ]
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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Friday, September 29 2006 08:19 Profile #6
My suggestion, because I have neither the time nor the inclination to do it myself, would be a combination of the symbols of the human factions: sword through crown, sunburst.
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I Bear Tidings From TM in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, September 27 2006 19:27 Profile #0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U1lx39GYo&NR

If you want, I can channel the man himself. Vicious personalized responses, excessive German-style commas, and all.

You need but post and ye shall receive. Or yer mom shall receive.

Your call, son.

[ Wednesday, September 27, 2006 19:29: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ]
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Jive Turkey in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Wednesday, September 27 2006 14:36 Profile #3
Europeans are possessed of the shared delusion that culture exists. 'Charles Martel saved civilization at Tours' is widely considered a valid statement, and if it wasn't, making it 'our civilization' would immediately render it so.

That Europe - and Europeans - would probably have benefitted from algebra and modern sanitation before the 16th century isn't a factor in the analysis, because the filthy Berbers were Muslim and thus an enemy of their precious 'civilization'.

Turkey is historically and socially closer to Europe than to any other arbitrary arragement of peoples; their addition to the EU would strengthen and enrich the entire organization. But Europe has civilization to worry about.

So yes, most Americans would say 'yeah, duh'. But then again, most Americans probably couldn't make heads or tails of simultaneously resenting England's unenthusiasm for the EU and Turkey's enthusiasm for the EU. It's a slick and inoffensive racism.
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Free MMOGs in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Monday, September 25 2006 08:49 Profile #34
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

While it would be both amusing and interesting to have a Spiderweb convention, there are a few problems with it. We could probably deal with getting finances and getting enough people to show up, but not with the casualties. For instance, Nicothodes would stab people that think she's cute, TM would kill people because they suck, Ephesos wouldn't pass up a chance to cast RETRIBUTION!!! on noobs, and having Alorael in the area would make it impossible to walk around the convention safely. There would be multiple cults that would probably start a massive holy war. All the people bent on taking over the world would be in the same spot, so the world would be under their control within an hour. And when discussions get out of hand, there would be no way to stop them and it would turn into a riot.

So Dikiyoba isn't too excited about the idea.
THE PUNCHLINE IS THE INTERNET
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The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Sunday, September 24 2006 20:34 Profile #43
きょう、おれは
シボレーがいる --
あきのチン。

[ Sunday, September 24, 2006 20:35: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ]
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