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Earthdawn returns next year.

Not really sure that's a good thing, honestly.

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Fucking move out.

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There used to be a lot of problems with people going and getting demos of stuff, and then turning around and snagging it on Amazon for 20% off, too. The retailers wisely said "fuck that guy" and quit caring, since he was costing them money.

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Rome would have had to look rather a lot different to survive. Its internal politics made feudalism look positively efficient, and by and large its entire economy was built on conquering new lands, settling new gentry there, and taking pretty much the entire indigenous population as slaves. The prob...

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Oh, yeah - I'm in DC now! Not in anything even remotely politically related, but I may end up making contacts that lead in that direction. We'll see. Quieter is better, but I'm probably not OCing anything simply because it's not necessary. I'll be running Win8 because I can get it legitimately for l...

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Machine I am considering building soon-ish (after Christmas certainly, maybe after January depending on how expensive living in DC actually ends up being): Antec P280 MSI B75MA-P45 mobo Intel Core i3-3220 Ivy Bridge Sapphire Radeon 7850 8GB Kingston DDR3-1600 RAM Seasonic X-650 PSU Samsung 830 128GB...

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$2.4 million dollars to the DoJ is roughly equivalent to the change in your couch, and the odds of the police actually using it to prosecute IP infringement that doesn't include selling bootlegs out of a van asymptotically approach zero, since local police departments have no jurisdiction over The H...

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That's absolutely amazing, man. So glad for you.

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Japanese people are weird.

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It's happened to me on a couple of occasions. I find myself really wishing I had copies of my post explaining Citizens United and eviscerating the argument that the income tax is unconstitutional on a not-infrequent basis.

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Martin's been pretty open with his difficulties writing Dance with Dragons: He needed to get a number of characters shuffled around so that they were in the vicinity of Mereen, and then have Mereen go to hell, but couldn't really figure out how to do it. Having read the book, it seems like his bigge...

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I cannot believe 3278 is driving an automatic. Are you a 3278-shaped lizard man? I'm pretty sure you're a lizard man.

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Where are you working that you're making $38k-45k and not getting health insurance? :conf: I'm...not? I think you're probably doing the math with my daughter in there? Your subsidy scales with the number of people in your household, because the number of people in your household increases the pover...

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Where are you working that you're making $38k-45k and not getting health insurance? It's quite possible that your employer will make health insurance available to you at a cost lower than that of the exchanges by the time the penalty goes into effect; companies with over 50 employees that don't offe...

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Ah ha hahaha! They can go fuck themselves. It would literally be the end of us, economically. I'll happily not-pay the not-fine, thanks. Jesus fucking stupid fucking Christ. Weren't these people supposed to be the party for poor people? Again, how much of your income is the government aware of (a r...

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The thing that confounds me most about the recent events of this, is the apparent gullibility people are expressing regarding Roberts' "shift to the left" on this issue. I just may be super cynical, but it appears to me that he just performed the single biggest push to get Romney elected ...

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Ah ha hahaha! They can go fuck themselves. It would literally be the end of us, economically. I'll happily not-pay the not-fine, thanks. Jesus fucking stupid fucking Christ. Weren't these people supposed to be the party for poor people? Are none of the rest of you going to get completely fucked by ...

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I don't know what those things mean. I'm not very good at things involving governments; for a long while, we had a standing arrangement: they left me alone, and I didn't overthrow them. So I'm not real good with tax terminology, and benefits, and stuff like that. What do you mean? http://img41.imag...

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Oh holy shit Diaspora finally went live? BRB closing Facebook (again)

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This season would have really benefitted from an additional two episodes. Given that it's the highest-rated show on HBO, I find it kind of amazing that they didn't expand it a little and give it more room to breathe.

Luckily, they're splitting Storm of Swords into two seasons.

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Wonderful. Guess I'll run a virus check.

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Any particular reason why the header image is a (distorted by stretch) picture of a chick cupping her tits?

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Tiny Deev wrote:Tywin is not a bad person. Stern, but not without love. He loved his wife, loves his children and loves his House.

And has no problem employing Clegane, Lorch, and Hoat. Sooooooooo.

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Does anyone have any suggestions for polite and politic methods of inquiring about this issue? I'm kind of at my wits' end in terms of how to take care of this without just pissing off everyone involved. Also, does this never bother anyone else? Like, when forums go away and everything disappears? ...

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I can't imagine you'll have a problem getting DII to mount from an ISO. NWN2 might have issues, but Atari wasn't known for especially egregious DRM, so who knows; you should defintely be able to find a crack, if nothing else, since I assume it's not streaming content from the disc.

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So, I'm going to a hot, sandy place again. I'm thinking about a new geek box to take with me. Must be portable, single unit, rugged enough to survive with just a neoprene sleeve in an assault pack. Budget? (Something I've seen around the office are essentially two piece laptops in a leather case. I...

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What'd you think of Dance, Ray?

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Jizz, BroJ. Babies come from jizz.

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Guess who just got a beta invite? (Hint: It's me.)

I know we had a bunch of people on here who were heavily into Diablo II, so I'll post up a rundown on my personal impressions after I get the client downloaded and installed. If anyone has any specific questions, let me know.

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I fucking hate it there. I really want to get away, to remove it from the pinned tabs I have in Chrome. It's so retarded, and predictably retarded. I've seen this play so many times before, and with much better actors the first several times around. Ask a rules question, get 20 responses before any...

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In The Greatest Thing That's Ever Happened In Politics news, McCain's entire 2008 opposition research file on Romney just got leaked on Scribd. This is the political equivalent of Romney opening the fucking Necronomicon. He's going to have about two hundred pages worth of fires to put out before Sup...

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I just recently finished the Ravenor and Eisenhorn Omnibus editions. Abnett is the best thing to happen to 40K in the past decade, other than Fantasy Flight Games taking over the RPG. My girlfriend finally "got" 40k after reading Ravenor and a couple brief discussions. Her reactions to so...

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I wrote a small novel about the US national debt.

You can read it here if you'd like.

It involves Tang.

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I favor citizen protection, I just don't favor direct government manipulation of the market, or artificial stimulation of demand by inventing projects, or by justifying projects on the basis of economic stimulus. That's not really what's supposed to happen for economic stimulus, and by and large it...

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Well, that's something else: supposedly - and I have no reason to doubt this - airline pilots are required to constantly re-test for their positions, with difficult and constantly varied tests that have to be studied for. Aren't these guys doing simulator time, doing emergency maneuvers, doing the ...

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Management experience is worth a fuckton more in applying for other jobs than driving experience. It's worth a lot more weight down the line if you don't plan on staying with UPS forever (and you shouldn't, because there's always the outside possibility that they'll shitcan you through no fault of y...

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I was really, really disappointed in Dany's chapters in Dance. Like, incredibly so. There's two of her chapters where you're like HOLY SHIT, but it takes a long-ass time to get to them, and they're not that awesome. Stannis' and Jon's chapters are pretty friggin' great, though, as well as those of o...

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So what don't you like about the way he writes? I don't think he's a bad writer , just not a very good one . It may have been overstating it a bit to say that I hate the way he writes; he certainly does well enough to get the job done. I've just never been impressed by how well he writes. Now, how ...

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To the best of my knowledge there's no legislation regarding the amount of ad time you can have. Even if there was it would only apply to broadcast, cable's its own beast. In practice, everyone typically adheres to roughly 16 minutes. Yeah, I don't think it's actually legislated (I don't know that ...

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I'd honestly never considered the possibility of limiting ad time by legislation. I wonder what the argument is in favor of it? Well, the airwaves are a public good, so it promotes the use of the medium for artistic expression (or whatever) rather than pure commercial ad time. To the best of my kno...

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3278 wrote:I've been thinking a lot about this, and I just can't figure out why we don't send an unmanned mission to this place, just because it's so awesome, and it's really not that far away.

Err, it's 4,000 light-years.

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While telling the story of the Starks finding the dire wolf pups in the forest, it occurred to me: isn't the dire wolf mother killed by a stag? Is there supposed to be a metaphor in there that I'm too stupid to have grasped, that the stag [Baratheon] and the wolf [Stark] should destroy each other? ...

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In the situation we're in now - businesses just sitting on record amounts of liquid cash, because there's no expectation of an uptick in aggregate demand - the best solution (assuming we want to remain deficit-neutral, which isn't strictly speaking necessary) is to increase taxes on the rich and us...

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In theory, letting the rich retain more of their income is beneficial because they invest at a higher rate. In practice, it doesn't matter whether or not they invest if there's a demand constraint (such as what happens when you're sitting at a cool 9.2% unemployment.) That you can now make better w...

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That's been a consideration before, as well. The US shied away from ratifying our membership in the International Criminal Courts, too, because we were worried someone might imprison one of our own. But not everyone has this reservation . Not entirely accurate: we refused to ratify the ICC treaty b...

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If Global Themonuclear war was such a good deterrent and without fail, why did we spend so much on defending the fulda gap? The Fulda Gap was initially defended before the nuclear arms race. Pulling back could have invited an invasion. Edit: Actually, it was held before the Soviets even had a nucle...

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A couple of attempts have been made at spiritual successors to X-Com, but they've all fallen a bit flat. The second proper sequel, Apocalypse, was actually very very good. Rushed, so a lot of its promise wasn't fulfilled - a very complex political model was planned, but only halfway developed - and ...

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I don't understand why viewing angles are at all a selling point when the vast, vast, vast majority of the time you're sitting directly perpendicular to your monitor. I will gladly concede the issue for televisions - my dad has a big ol' DLP that looks like absolute shit at about thirty degrees off-...

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re: Russian War How soon? 10-20 years is my estimate, depending on how things change in the world. I don't see it, for the same reason I don't see war with China happening within our lifetimes: war is bad for business. The Russian government is overwhelmingly run by plutocrats and the mob, who are o...

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The difference is that Twitter doesn't have a method for asking someone to follow you. G+ does.

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