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by Chopper
Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:49 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

so are we still waitiung on posts? Or are we rolling initiative again?
by Chopper
Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:27 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: If you complain about the heat...
Replies: 14
Views: 317

Johnny the Bull wrote:
MooCow wrote:
and gives a small beer ration
That is so cool. ;)
Apparently you can make more money selling your rations than off your weekly paycheck.
But then you would have to buy food with your money. Jk.

I don't doubt that military pay is too low.
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:55 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: I have Cancer
Replies: 17
Views: 296

Asshole, you scared me for a second there, not funny. Even though I don't know any of you, finding out that any of you got terminally ill would ruin my day.
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:52 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC] Streets of Rage: Devil's Playground
Replies: 71
Views: 2682

Toyman probobly has a few ramps that allow his toy cars to launch out of the building from some of the first floor windows that may be higher then man level. Like 7 or 8 feet up from the floor, using ramps in the inside, outside it just looks like a vent opening. We moved around the bookcases in sub...
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:36 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Evil Dead: The Musical
Replies: 5
Views: 200

Woot, I got a perfect score! Damn I'm good.
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:13 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cheney to Leahy: Fuck You.
Replies: 23
Views: 292

I like to think of Generation X and beyond as the X-Files generations. Seems more and more people today think there HAS to be a conspiracy or UFO behind everything. The "Verbal backhand" as Salvation122 put it, is the cure for the most extreme cases. Sometimes people need a wake up call. ...
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:03 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Michael Moore
Replies: 231
Views: 4923

Moore is merely making money off of people's media founded hatred for Bush. He realised that even though what he says doesn't reflect the truth, he can still make money off of the lies because the paying people really don't care about truth, they just like to watch things that rip on Bush. Can't bla...
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:44 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New LAPD video
Replies: 36
Views: 494

I doubt there would be any media coverage on this if the guy was white.
by Chopper
Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:41 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New LAPD video
Replies: 36
Views: 494

My sentiments are that police are no longer respected, and people basically have nothing to fear from the U.S. Justice System because of how soft it has gotten with regard to how people are treated. Making the justice system harsher isn't going to do anything for community respect of police. If any...
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:05 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Cheney to Leahy: Fuck You.
Replies: 23
Views: 292

I like to think of Generation X and beyond as the X-Files generations. Seems more and more people today think there HAS to be a conspiracy or UFO behind everything. The "Verbal backhand" as Salvation122 put it, is the cure for the most extreme cases. Sometimes people need a wake up call. T...
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:51 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: The FCC and "decency".
Replies: 19
Views: 559

lordhellion. You get a $1,000,000 indecency fine for your icon.
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:30 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: U.S. backs down on immunity for troops from ICC
Replies: 22
Views: 355

But it is a court of last resort and will step in only when countries are unwilling or unable to dispense justice themselves, making it highly unlikely that an American would be prosecuted.
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:25 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Olsen Twins
Replies: 47
Views: 944

lorg wrote:
Nightsky wrote:Give them ten years or so to blow the money and you'll be seeing them in cheap porn flicks with Ron Jeremy.
Ron Jeremy will be what? 60-70 years old by then? Ohh yeah! Geriatric porns da bomb! Nah, don't think I'd want to see that.
It would be called "Grandpa Knows Best"
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:08 pm
Forum: Bulldrek
Topic: The tax game
Replies: 33
Views: 428

The tax game

Ok here are the rules.

Name three federal taxes that are currently active that John Kerry WON'T RAISE if he becomes president, and if nobody named any of them already, you win a cookie that is paid for by Bulldrek (tax deductable.)

Let's see how many of you can win a cookie.
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:46 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Movies: Summer 2004
Replies: 66
Views: 1235

I know this isn't a summer movie, and it makes me look bad to have read this review. Very un-mocho of me. http://joblo.com/upcomingmovies/movies.php?id=277 This part of the plot line caught my attention. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange ...
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:38 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Movies: Summer 2004
Replies: 66
Views: 1235

The sequal to The Bourne Identity. The Bourne Supremacy. July 23. I enjoyed the first one, I'll watch this one. Different director this time though, we will have to see how this one turns out.

http://joblo.com/upcomingmovies/movies.php?id=85
by Chopper
Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:15 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: for the MI,IL,WI,OH crews...I am in need...
Replies: 13
Views: 249

I was joking. If you get a monitor in seven bozes, it's a sure bet that all the king's horses and men wouldn't be able to put it together again.
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:49 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Another reason why AOL sucks
Replies: 6
Views: 119

Another reason why AOL sucks

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3109268 and if that isn't bad enough... http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=AOL-To-Pay------Million-To-Buy-Advertising-com&story_id=25562&category=ecommerce And even if that isn't bad enough, what if the following was you? http://ww...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:32 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: for the MI,IL,WI,OH crews...I am in need...
Replies: 13
Views: 249

You can have my 21" monitor. Just come and pick up the seven boxes.
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:55 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

Szechuan wrote:
MooCow wrote:I also think that you should be required to serve X number of hours of community service for every Y dollars you spend to go to school.
I think you should be required to serve X number of hours of community service for every Y hours you live in the country.
So you are in support of a draft?
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:34 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: New LAPD video
Replies: 36
Views: 494

Anyone have a link where you don't have to subscribe to watch the video? Keep in mind that this guy is a car theif. When he runs from police, he is "armed" with a multiple ton battering ram that can go from 0 to 60 in 10 seconds. Of course this doesn't excuse the beating, but this also doe...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:27 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: My new company: Mid-Michigan Adventure Gear
Replies: 37
Views: 540

I dissected a radio collar button that connnects via a wire and goes to an earpiece. I rewired it so that the button was on the gun, running up my sleeve to the ear piece, and finally from the ear back down to the radio. The problem was whenever I went to reload my paintball chamber, I would have to...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:11 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: My new company: Mid-Michigan Adventure Gear
Replies: 37
Views: 540

I'm not a big fan of voice activation for two-way radios. Doesn't work too well when playing paintball. If you sell a radio or radio accessory that has a remote activation button that can be stuck onto the side of a gun, I'd buy one in an instant. I'd stick that button on the spot where my left-hand...
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:57 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: [Weird News] Vietnamese man goes for World's Longest Hair
Replies: 10
Views: 184

I asked "why?" as a general question, not in response to the pillow comment.

What is the point?
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:58 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: My new company: Mid-Michigan Adventure Gear
Replies: 37
Views: 540

I would highly reccomend getting a good mark with the BBB as soon as you qualify. Post on the front of the site that you are a member of the BBB. The BBB has logos available for use on websites.

And it seems to be missing a special discount for bulldreckers.
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:33 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: [Weird News] Vietnamese man goes for World's Longest Hair
Replies: 10
Views: 184

Why?
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:15 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

It sounds like it's ok to "assume a position" at the beginning of combat. So I would start your first combat action off at whatever point you like. There seems to have been some confusion in the beginning as to who went where, so I don't think Paul will mind if you already went downstairs ...
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:09 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC] Streets of Rage: Devil's Playground
Replies: 71
Views: 2682

So then the cart ramp would be facing North (rear of the building). So would the combo entrence of the cart ramp & stairway be the only north entrence or is there a 2nd entrence that was used by the public?
by Chopper
Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:02 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Next Stop, X Prize
Replies: 11
Views: 155

Solids can condense more energy into a smaller space then liquid, and rubber doesn't seperate in zero gravety/inertia, and rubber can shift and bend with the ship to reduce stress. My three guesses of why they use it. Although these are just guesses pulled out of my ass, I'm not a rocket scientist. ...
by Chopper
Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:53 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC] Streets of Rage: Devil's Playground
Replies: 71
Views: 2682

What direction does the front door of the library face btw?
by Chopper
Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:49 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

Chopper is now at the base of the cart ramp on his Scorpion. I dunno if it will affect combat, but I figured shining the brights would make it harder for them to see me, since bright light sources tend to black out what is directly behind them to the naked eye.
by Chopper
Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:38 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [IC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 140
Views: 12970

Chopper watched Nash comforting Billy as he started up his Harley. The motor joined in the symphony of pops and gurgles heard just outside of the building, piercing the noise, magnified by it's echos inside, like an opera singer performing a soloette backed up by a orchistra of faint violins. "...
by Chopper
Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:15 am
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

Is it ok for me to post? I thought I needed to wait for Tiger before posting.

Now I don't know what's going on, was Tiger's last post his post for this round of combat? Were you guys waiting for my post?
by Chopper
Sun Jun 20, 2004 2:28 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

Me bad. For some reason, I thought the employer had to pay half of the unemployment checks while the state and federal pitch in to match the amount. Apparently the checks come from the state and federal without the employer having any contribution, except the premiums. I'm going to go into a corner ...
by Chopper
Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:46 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

Also unemployment doesn't help. Employers perfer to have 6 part time workers rather then 3 full time workers cause of it. Rather then getting fired, people are given 3 hour shifts and two tables during the worst hours of the week for the rest of their lives until they quit. If you quit, your employ...
by Chopper
Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:42 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

Is that the California minimum wage or Canadian minimum wage?
by Chopper
Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:34 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

From your understanding, there are two routes to take: more hours with less pay or less hours with more pay. Given that people want things to do other than work, what would you rather have? More for less. The magic words that today's generations have become too comfortable with. What ever happoned ...
by Chopper
Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:49 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Minimum Wage
Replies: 167
Views: 2034

The problem is not pay, the problem is not enough hours to get enough money. Government discouraging an employer to give a worker more then 40 hours per week is bad enough, so now people have to get two jobs, which ends up costing the worker more (commuting expenses). Minimum wage increases would ca...
by Chopper
Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:43 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: US/EU Airline Passenger Data Row
Replies: 49
Views: 552

I'm beginning to get the feeling that this board is getting waaay to paranoid. Like there is a big conspiracy to keep Jane and John down.
by Chopper
Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:20 am
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

I just posted my next 3 turns is all. Since my highest possible initiative is 10, that means I get 1 initiative pass per roll. I just thought it might help clearify what I am planning on doing with my character. But if you don't like me declaring my next 3 turns in advance, I'll declare and roll for...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:13 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Hacker Test Meets Requiem For A Dream
Replies: 31
Views: 531

When you first click on the link, and it loads, there's a small box in the upper left corner (at least on my machine) that flashes like it's opening a new link, but then it disappears. I can't see what it says, and can't get it to pause at that time. Anybody else see it? Edit: It says "Help. I...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:17 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

Initiative: 1d6 + 4 = 8 Action 1: Drive my bike to the bottom of the book ramp at the rear door. Initiative: 1d6 + 4 = 8 Action 2: Load my Street Sweeper with nails. (break loading) - complicated action. Initiative: 1d6 + 4 = 7 Action 3: Shotgun Skill 3 plus 3 combat pool = 6 dice. Aim my Street Swe...
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:40 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: US/EU Airline Passenger Data Row
Replies: 49
Views: 552

So the government knows you perferred fish instead of chicken that day.

BIG FUCKING DEAL. Get over it.
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:30 pm
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Hacker Test Meets Requiem For A Dream
Replies: 31
Views: 531

The image of the truck is FrolicInBrine. When you do a Google, the top link comes to this page: http://www.brine.com/2k4_homepage/brine.php

The truck says Scandinavian Imports. I donno if there is a connection here.
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:14 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

How does initiative work in PB3's?
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:46 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Former US diplomats & generals criticize Bush
Replies: 54
Views: 772

What if i told you some democrats will vote for Bush?
by Chopper
Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:41 am
Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
Topic: Former US diplomats & generals criticize Bush
Replies: 54
Views: 772

Bush Bashing: The new American past time. Baseball is just too boring.
by Chopper
Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:01 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC]Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire
Replies: 417
Views: 10716

I forgot to ask this question:

Do we get cell phone signals around here? I ask cause I have a hand held. :|

I would like to know who has a cell phone and who has a radio, so I know who I can communicate remotely with.
by Chopper
Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:37 pm
Forum: The Game's the Thing
Topic: [OOC] Streets of Rage: Devil's Playground
Replies: 71
Views: 2682

Many libraries today use metal shelving systems, simular to those found in retail stores, but more book case like. Metal shelves could be detatched and make for an easy substitute for metal piping. And they would be great for boarding up windows, as they usually have rows of holes going down their l...