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I hate that graph. It's missing the most important information, the legislature compositions. Well, it also ignores the minor detail of massive inflation being the only reason debt decreases for the first half, but whatever. The executive branch executes, the House picks the numbers. Clinton was blocked by a republican congress that fought him tooth and nail over spending cuts, Reagan and Bush 41 had a democrat house controlling the purse strings, with

Sounds like it doesn't agree with a setting. Check for software that wasn't running the first time you ran it, like something you disabled before installing, but you should probably do a reset on the configuration. It might be a corrupted video file botching the intro or something, but that stuff is a lot less likely.

Hence the advent of Keynesian economics, an excuse to be irresponsible and continue power consolidation. :)

[quote]The very end of the game will always be a foregone conclusion. The climax of a TBS game is never right at the end of a match - the climax comes before the end and generally determines how the game will end. The climax is the most important part of a game (at least as important as the beginning, for me) and the trick is to make it last as long as possible. You want the climax to start early and end late, but the very very end of the game is not so important, imo. [/quote]<

Spambots are so creative these days...

Good point, so I needed to switch one word. Still works out the same though. Everyone loves to spend someone elses money. [quote]And on the topic, as a wise man Keynes once said - spend in recession, save when not. Unfortunately all the politicians out there belive seem to belive in 'whatever, just spend the whole lot'[/quote] Tried that, twice. It got us two depressions for two recessions. Keynes was an idiot for coming up

You mean you'll be voting Republican, and hoping they're Conservative... Fucking politicians, I give em four years before they fuck it up even if they start off playing the part. Maybe they can sucker themselves into one term limitations before they realize the mistake.

Hilarious GW, really. The NCPA can be a communist outfit and it wouldn't matter. They didn't even do the research, they're just reporting on it. I've seen multiple studies done in different years over the past decade, they've all said the same thing. We spank the shit out of everyone else. You should really get over this habit of looking at the medium first, and data second. Considering D.C. is run by a bunch of verifiably corrupt, habitual

I wont miss it, but I could go for it.

We're already fucked, so it's not going to happen until after a collapse, but what the hell. Spending needs to be cut in half, at least. Deficit spending needs to cease to exist outside of a real war, and this idiotic debt needs to be payed off as fast as possible. Having so much of the worlds capital tied up in government bonds has utterly fucked the growth of the private sector. Government, as a net loser on investment, doesn't grow the economy when

Amusing, but pointless.

Will I get executed for saying I want magic like in the last two Harry Potter movies? I'm thinking, specifically, the fire magic lord moldywart was throwing around in the fifth, and the one the headless headmaster whipped out in that cave.

The numbers are guesswork, pure guesswork. It does illustrate the basic problem though. We can't do a damn thing to stop them from rising, let alone reduce them, without putting most of the world into abject poverty. Something most of the world isn't likely to agree with.

You don't have to base it on luck by itself. There can be contributing factors. With a good morale system and proper combat, your brash knights(most European knights were) can occasionally do that stupid charge for glory they'd have best not done. If you have the advantage, those stupid units are going to be a lot more likely to behave stupidly than they would if you're about to get creamed. On the reverse, low morale units are more likely to do someth

[quote]I did mention "a few people".......[/quote] There are more than a "few" Japanese...

Variety. Complexity. That pretty much sums it up for me, lots to do, lots of different ways to do it. I loath overly simple systems, like combat in Civ.

Make real formations, add morale.

[quote] Fleeing, Surrendering, Panicking: Personally this is the most important morale effect for me. If the morale drops low, maybe a unit will fight worse but as soon as it hits a certain amount a unit will simply break and panic. It will then begin to flee from the field, try to surrender, (maybe even try to change sides in case of mercenaries) or just cower down and not move. Assuming that nothing worse happens to them they'll maybe catch themselves again or some spell or

[quote]Eeash, where to begin?[/quote] I suggest the historical biography section of your local library. I read a significant portion of it when I was in junior high. After that, move up to the real meat and potatoes, the reference section. Sadly, I read a significant portion of that starting in grade school. [quote]I think you missed everything I said.[/quote] No, but you missed everything you needed to kno

[quote]This non-Fallen (natural creature of Elemental) appears only in swamp areas. Incidentally, it has not been named yet so feel free to suggest names. [/quote] New pair of boots?

[quote]You can count me in. If we can spend trillions killing Iraqis and bailing out Wall Street investors who make no real contribution to humanity, then we can spend trillions advancing science to improve our environment.[/quote] You mean doing things like making cars run 20 times cleaner? Oh right, we've already done that. It's probably what got this CO2 nonsense started, the hippies ran out of shit to bitch about when the automobile industry

Some of the acting was awfully bad at the start... It's not too bad by season 3 though, you just need to watch some shit from the sixties first, then it's all good. Smooth as glass after some Lost in Space. :)

[quote]So close, and yet not making the connection. As was said, volcanoes do emit CO2, but not a lot as has been studied and shown. My mentioning of the prehistoric eruption that created the Atlantic was to show that an eruption on such a massive scale is what is needed to create the cooling that you claimed in your post. But, the effects of the current low level of volcanic eruptions has very little impact on the climate (as you said). This is shown in the CO2 measurements taken each y

If you can spread caltrops and burn bridges down with your patrol, they'll do a hell of a lot to an invading army. That's the logic for units not being able to use enemy roads in Civ, your civilization takes out infrastructure as they come.

[quote]I'm sorry, but most of the graphs on that website are clear misrepresentations of data, so much so that I can't take it seriously. On the temperature graph, they show it being in relation to temperatures "now" as a deviation. But, then on the CO2 graph, they just show the numbers in ppm. The CO2 graph shows the usual hockey stick graph. But, the temperature graph (in order to throw the reader off) uses a deviation in relation to temperatures now. Considering the deviation value to temp