Scoutdog

Banned for not liking reading when there are words in your avatar.

Banned for trying to protect "baners." self-banned for not noticing the other page, and banned for trying to stop serial-banning.

[quote]The gum analogy will fail with this argument so I will go back to people. You say employers will hire less workers so they will survive. But not only do less workers have jobs, but because less workers have jobs, there are less products being made. This reduces social benefit since there are less products to go around. Sure, employers will survive, but at the cost of a massive amount of good to everyone else. Also, what if the government raises the price of labor too high so some busin

Banned for having an albino avatar.

[quote]Higher minimum wage requires employers to pay more per employee so they can hire less people overall. Think of it this way, you can buy 10 sticks of gum for $10. But now the government steps in and says gum should be $2.00 since thats only fair to the hard working gum companies. Now you can only buy 5 sticks of gum. By setting a minimum price for the product, you now must settle for less. The same applies to the labor market. Higher price for workers means less workers hired.[/quote]</

I think that someone should have at least provideda time to skip to when they started talking about Elemental. (Well, they did later, but 5 days after the actual thing went up.)

[quote]Arguments that support socialism usually rely heavily on vague assumptions.[/quote] So do many of your arguments. I'm not an economist (I'm barely in high school) but I can still see a number of flaws in them: [quote]Higher minimum wage increases unemployment.[/quote] How? People won't get higher minimum wages if they aren't working. [quote]It creates the conditions for government corruption[/quote] Government opacity creates corruption.

It's hard to believe that that used XBox I got actually costed $216.

[quote]It's just like radio except that you can skip bits. So what's wrong with that?[/quote] The fact that you have no idea where to skip if you are listening for the first time. Do you ever wonder why newspapers tend to have a larger customer base than radio shows?

Banned for having what looks like a frilled lizard on your pants. Yeeeeesh.

Banned for not banning somebody and assumiong that zombies have bones. Some don't.

Probably.

Banned for being a Boat Person.

Banned for seeing an X-Wing fighter in the insignia of the Silver Legion RD Division.

Banned for blowing up on the Emperor.

I think that could be modded, if you knoew what you were doing..... I don't think SD would go to all that trouble to integrate it when the game is relatively close to completion (@ least from a player coding POV, I think they still have to do some work with spells & magic etc.).

Banned for being a technophobe.

Banned for encouraging people to be communist, which would cause the govenment to expand until it controls the entire glaxyandyoucouldn'tevenbreatewithoutfederalauthorizationandeverybodywouldbegayand...... [e digicons]o_O[/e] - [e digicons]:omg:[/e] - [e digicons]8O[/e] -[e digicons]:(O[/e] - [e digicons]XO[/e] - [e digicons]:S[/e] - [e digicons]x_x[/e] - [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] .

No, but I will tell you that if my friend had been caught with cocaine, heroin, or marijuana, he would in all liklihood been hanged.

Banned for pushing drugs and assuming that just because a friend of mine from school (who is a hard-line athiest) told me about the 14 sins, that I am catholic.

Banned for not realizing they changed it to 14 deadly sins.

Banned for miscounting.

Ban not, lest ye be banned.

Banned for denying the existance of Schi-Fi.

One thing that would be nice would be to see units that are blinded/confused/paralyzed actually act that way, as opposed to just having stat penalties e.g. a blinded soldier would attack indescriminately, run in random directions, and occaisionally fall down until (s)he began to get accustomed to using other senses, a sleep spell would actually allow a unit to be roused by loud noises, and so on.