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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Hmmm, that does sound bad.

Hey, I wish I knew how to derive Schroedinger's Equation, though! As far as I know, it's an axiom :) .

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Let me provide the most basic response immediately, to the effect that Jeff's games all have positive pressure, whereas the same cannot be said in Richard's case.

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Originally written by 4.808 x 10^3:

What we are doing in this war is preventing another September 11, which was a threat to our national security.

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Originally written by SupaNik:

Although, I can't help but wondering why this is important. We don't use this boards as a kinda virtual dating agency. Or, at least, we shouldn't do.

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Yes, but I mean to say that there is absolutely nothing in the laws that says anything about the particular ideology someone has to use. It's perfectly legal for a politician to reach his decisions thought process he wants, Bible, random guessing, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it doesn't matter.

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the fact that one tends to have a higher rate of long-term harmful effects is merely a quantitative matter, not a qualitative one.

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It's also not the point. The point is, again, the intent. Police don't intend to kill rioters.

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First of all, seriously, that just makes me laugh. For one, it's not like we don't know that bicycles are in the US, or are suffering from some kind of bicycle drought.

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And I laugh to think of giant trucks of grain being pulled by hundreds of people on bikes :) .

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Originally written by cfgauss:

Lmao, I have never heard that before! Alcoholics need some kind of help, they're a danger to the public (that's a fact, not an oppinion). And unless you can find another program, AA is pretty much it. And AA is not a religious program, though that's not to say people in it aren't. If they are they are making you do religious things, that's a problem, though they can suggest them.

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Not according to my political science books and teachers! They can spin around and randomly point to ideas if they want to. For certian, some political ideologies / theories say they should represent the public exactly, but it is definately not required that they do that!

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Yes, but a) they only are supposed to do that when they become a danger to other people, and b) the point of tear gas is not to kill people! Big difference there!! In fact, that's the opposite of the point of it! Now, if they were using mustard gas or cyanide on them, that would be a problem!

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So the citizens of third world countries don't count as "people"? How telling.

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You know that's not what my sentance was saying.

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And again, I'll say, again: there's no poof for increasing tempratures being caused by people--and as an entirely sepperate thing I was saying, but will say again, which is on the same topic--3rd world countries pollute way more than us!!!

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Instead, there will be the EU and Japan running the world instead of us! (*gasp*). Remember what happened in th '70s? Oil Shortage!

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Errr... the rest of the world was running on magical-care-bare-powered cars? Fusion powered cars? Fuel cell powered cars? I don't think so. They all rely on oil exactly as much as we do.

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What I think certain designers fail to understand is that when a game player is compelled to follow game play only as specifically directed by the designer at very rigid times and in a very specific manner the environment fails the player.

Designers who preach creativity for themselves and limit creativity for players code stagnancy directly into their “artwork”. As a player, to try an unintended (by the designer) strategy and fail is far better then to be compelled to follow the directions of the controlling “artist”.

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This gives the gameplay meaning and richness, and repeatability.

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Inasmuch as one compares himself/herself to an artist then one must also look at an artists response to created art – it is put on display and is allowed for others to determine its meaning. Rarely does an artist create a work and then tell the public exactly how that art is to be interpreted, where it is to be displayed, the audience that should view it, conditions of display etc.

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In an open gaming community such design could be, and should be, interpreted as intolerant, heavy handed and filled with self-importance.

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Designing for oneself is very different from designing for others. Design scenarios that meet your needs, expose them to others if you wish, but don’t be pissed off if they don’t come to the same conclusions/accept your interpretations.

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Originally written by cfgauss:

I am an atheist, I have never EVER felt any kind of religious pressure of any kind by the government at all.

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There is no law that has ever been written that prevents any leader from doing that. Any leader in this country can base his decisions and ideology on whatever they want, they can base their policies on their own ideas, the Bible, the Koran, Mein Kapmf, the Necronomicon, or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it doesn't matter. That's the whole point of our ENTIRE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!!!

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Second, Western Eurpoe isn't gassing its own people!! There's a big difference there! The second they do start doing that, I hope someone goes over and blows their country back to the stone age, too! And yes--it is against international law to kill your own people!!!!

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And again, I'll say, again: there's no poof for increasing tempratures being caused by people; 3rd world countries pollute way more than us!!!

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