I get the missing zones of control every time I reload or start a new game once one is already running. I can't imagine it being hard to reproduce unless it's just some narrow hardware set. I'm not exactly off in the weeds here with a 680 GTX.
The treaty argument presumes that anything the US does by treaty is thus constitutional. They're currently using this to subvert the Second Amendment through the UN. It's pretty fast and loose to say the US has no authority to do something, but if it's a treaty with another country it's okay. If you instead posit that the US has no authority to make a treaty outside it's strictures, then the treaty itself was not made under the authority
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/nasa-massively-tampering-with-the-us-temperature-record/ http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/01/data-tamperin-giss-caught-red-handed-manipulaing-data-to-produce-arctic-clim
Still going on about volcanoes... Hopefully you really have checked out, because you're always wrong. Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. St. Helens are stratovolcanoes. Mt. St. Helens itself was insignificant, a tenth of the scale of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Neither of them created any long term trend in temperature changes. The short term cooling from Mt. Pinatubo was significant enough to get a mention, but it lasted less than two y
As an entirely neutral observer with no knowledge of any previous interactions here, your post looks like you're trashing the game as only being playable one way. That said, I suck and am in much the same boat as the OP. :) I find that I either rush civ research or die to monsters before I can make a dent in other factions through the other paths. Most maps I just die. The maps are sadistic, horribly unbalanced fro
When you're a socialist, it's exploitation to make money by investing in others. You're supposed to just give them the capital they need out of the goodness of your heart, or by way of force. :)
I kinda think Siegel actually is bullshitting them in large part. Along with his "I'll retire to a tropical beach" bit he's been saying 2012 is a banner year, so... Then again, he's republican enough that he might close up shop and leave the country just to get away from our commie president. :) Plenty of people actually will get dumped out of their job though, and not just because of the tax issues. The regulations being m
There's a reason Wall street has voted democratic for decades, they're even worse about corporate welfare than the republicans are. You pay them off and stay in their good graces, and you get all the crony capitalism they can throw your way. Anyone that votes democratic because of corporate welfare has a serious problem with reality.
[quote]How?[/quote] Via magical utopian bullshit, as all redistribution schemes work. :) I'm "poor" which is to say I'm just fine. I'm a slacker that's been a lazy sod and I've gotten exactly what I deserved in return, low income. :) Since the Bush tax cuts, I've not paid a dime in income tax. These days I even get some of my social security withholdings back. Our tax code is a joke,
Yeah, 200 watt rms is kinda insane for pc speakers, but they were the only ones on display at fry's that didn't sound like crap, the Bose included. :( I can't vouche for their sound, but the 623's are not the only set with RCA jacks, the z323 and z523 are the same deal, RCA on the sub.
Single player DLC can be a good thing. I seriously doubt it's anything but a massecre to a multiplayer community though. You'd have to automate the disabling of non-shared assets and make sure your player base had a reasonable expectation to rarely, if ever, see it's use online. If it splits the community, you've just hosed the lifespan big time. The micro expansions probably knocked a solid year off the decay rate for the Sins player base.
Grading based on preference is subjective... Since nothing else was particularly interesting and playable at the same time, just E:WOM gets rated. At release, F, end of 2010, C, now, C. Subjectively speaking. If I analyze without adding in my personal distaste towards the economy and combat aspects I've worked in mainly due to the underachievement compared to early dev posts, I can see it being a B, maybe an A. I
[quote]Basically if T. Boone Pickens is losing his shirt over the Windmill farm it should be a tax deduction just as if he drilled a dry hole. [quote] No argument from me, but this is capital gains nonsense. Instead of treating it as income they've gone batshit insane. T.Boone Pickens wont be able to break the max deductible, so if he didn't have enough capital gains to offset his losses he is indeed getting the shaft. On th
Only in a world gone insane would it be a tax incentive to spend a million dollars, get a million back, and not pay taxes on your profit of zero. Since the world has gone insane, I'll give you that anyway. So somewhere in the mix of massively high taxes, the cost of crude is over 40% tax for those of you living in lala land, the US government gives a few bucks off here and there for something that would normally count as depreciable tax modifiers anyway as a stand
Oil companies pay higher than average taxes, there is no tax incentive. There is no subsidy either, when people talk about the real cost of oil, they're being rhetorical ass wipes and referring to how much it would take to create it, not a government program. :) If you want to see something that's subsidized, you need to look no further than all the bullshit renewable energy programs, like ethanol(lets all slit our wrists and get it over with faster!) or the absur
[quote]Surely we know how to make sythetic oil, but the proces COSTS energy, and if it costs more than it gives back, it's no energy source.[/quote] Context, anyone? While you're on the subject for no reason anyway, mind telling Congress that? We're getting tired of paying for this ethanol program.
Oil is replaced, in totality, long before a thousand dollars a barrel. The reason, and it's the sole reason, that we use oil is because it's cheap. Even the so called irreplaceable products like plastic have already been replaced. We know how to make oil itself. It's just more expensive. At a thousand dollars a barrel, there would be new billionaires popping up as they made 10-1 returns off an investment into algae tanks.
That was a reply to someone else. I'm quite aware of both the difficulties in acquiring the hard to get reserves and the rate at which oil is created. Which is why I said fuel and containers will be switching over to then less cost prohibitive alternatives when we're down to marginal production levels we can't spare on the nonsense. I expect pharmaceuticals and high end composits where other materials simply can't compare will be the only things using oil fifty years from no
[quote]Rights are subjective, we have law to protect someone's rights against our own.[/quote] As you have no right to someone elses time, there can be no law protecting your non-existent right. Rights can't be subjective and still be rights. A right is a right because it "exists" beyond the law of the day. A legal right isn't a right at all, something you can lose with the flick of a pen isn't yours to begin with. In essence, to argue that their
[quote]Wrong. And it's not their property, and there are laws governing what people do with their property.[/quote] Hilarious. Ignoring the absurd, irretrievable first half of your opening statement, I'll just shoot down the second half for you. There are countless laws mandating various inarguable requirements on the population. Podunk towns all over the country have laws against wearing shorts, tank tops, sandals. You're requir
[quote]Back on topic, the peak oil thing is a pretty serious matter to consider, especially if you're in a rich country that wallows in plastic, gasoline, and petro-fueled electricity grids. But unless we can bring population growth to a grinding halt, it will probably pale in comparison to water problems. Historically, wars over oil are a brief fad of a few centuries at best. Wars over water are at least as old as agriculture.[/quote] Fuck that, I'm looking forwa
Good tactical options and a story with a little depth will go a long way on that rpg. Avoid the trap of going sandbox and a plot both unless you can actually make it work. The only thing that saved Oblivion from that horribly boring chore was the mod capabilities. :)
As one of the hilariously entertaining graphical glitch sufferers, it's obvious what I'm getting myself into when I download a pre-release update...
I kinda like em. It's pretty.
You'd need a vassal system. Semi-permanent alliance with tech sharing, maybe if your vassal gets too big for his britches, he tries to take you on.