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  1. Re: Visual Guide on Taxes in ETW Campaigns What is best?

    If you want to set up an improved economy for the late game you want to lower taxes on Nobility. This reduces the tax penalty on +per turn.

    Increasing pop growth won't generate any revenue,...
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    Re: Women in the marines: test results

    Did you miss the part about the increase in training injuries during training? Strength standards are set to meet performance requirements. If the strength standard of squad A is lower than the...
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    Re: Women in the marines: test results

    What does this mean?

    An NCO is a non-commissioned officer. A junior officer is an second lieutenant, or in some cases a 1st lieutenant who hasn't had a command. A "standard" Gunny is short for...
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    Re: Women in the marines: test results

    A physical test is not an evaluator of combat capability.

    When I was in, the fitness test for Marines was a 3 mile run, situps, and pull ups.
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    Re: Women in the marines: test results

    No. No gorillas. An M60 MG team consists of three people, it takes about 15 seconds to set up the tripod, TnE, and gun with a well trained team. It is effortless to fire. MK19 is a different beast,...
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    Re: NFL Discussion Thread

    They chose pass because the pats sent in goal line defense to stop the run. The pats defense took the field before Seattle and Seattle had 3 receivers Instead of two tight ends. That's a pass...
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    Re: NFL Discussion Thread

    A) Pete Caroll was happy with the matchup. Malcolm Butler is an undrafted free agent rookie corner with zero credible college experience. A pass had to be called at some point because of the time...
  8. Re: Richest 1% to own more than rest of world, Oxfam says

    What's sufficient pay?

    Enough for a house food and water?
    No?
    A car?
    No?
    Two cars?
    No?
    Multiple televisions with satellite/cable, internet, cell phones for every family member, beer on the...
  9. Re: Why are muslim extremists always targeting civilians?

    From 1987-1993 they attacked "collaborators and moral deviants" (civilians) HAMAS in Politics by Jeroen Gunning
    The Passover Massacre March 27, 2002
    2008 Dimona Suicide bombing in a shopping mall ...
  10. Re: How often do you have to RMA computer parts you have ordered online?

    I had an ASUS G54 laptop. The fan on the heat pipe died inside 8 months. Ordered a new fan. It died the next week. Ordered a new fan, it was on back order by over 5 months. Took out the hard drive,...
  11. Re: Best of the Old (up to early 90s) computer games companies?

    No love for Sierra? (Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, The Island of Dr. Brain, Hoyle)
    Impressions? (Caesar, Pharaoh, Lords of the Realm)
  12. Re: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

    Prove it.

    That's all you have to do, prove to me that statement of fact. Objective, repeatable, and absolute observations are all that is required.


    Until then, I'll go with faith in the...
  13. Re: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

    Demonstrably false.


    .

    Oh, I see. I guess I was under the mistaken impression that you couldn't quantify omniscience. Tell me what those confirmable objective absolutes are, please. It will...
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    Re: On why christianity has declined in the west

    LOL. The public expression of faith is a catharsis that cannot be achieved through material means unless one is spiritually bankrupt, in which case the practice of religion is a means to an end. The...
  15. Re: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

    Sodog, not spiritual faith. Spiritual faith is about the unknowable. Be courteous enough not to attempt to correct what I am saying when you don't know what I am saying. Spiritual faith is about that...
  16. Re: Will future Artificial Intelligence try to end Mankind?

    1) Hardwire? You mean like a ROM gateway?

    2)
    Punch {rotate actuator 1 27 degrees. rotate actuator 2 34 degrees. extend ram A 23 inches at 24000 psi}
    Nudge {rotate actuator 1 27 degrees....
  17. Re: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

    That's the whole point. Belief in the unknowable.
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    Re: "More impressive than man walking on the moon"

    Manned space blimps on venus...ugh.

    There's an interesting discusdiscussion of the matter at the at the Kerbal Space Program science subforum. All I want to do when I think about it is take a...
  19. Re: Trans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr Before Killing Herself

    It goes back a couple of years. I myself can't comprehend it, but couseling has helped.

    But surely the point I made with the anecdote stands here? A parent is no more responsible for the mental...
  20. Re: Will future Artificial Intelligence try to end Mankind?

    10 If a=human then 40
    20 If a = wall then 30
    30 punch =1 goto 10
    40 punch = 0 goto 10

    That was hard.
  21. Re: Trans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr Before Killing Herself

    My daughter is a 13 year self cutter. When she is angry or depressed she does herself harm. 2 months ago (she was certainly depressed) she wanted to shave her head and get a bunch of lip rings and...
  22. Re: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

    We can prove what kind of morals would be at play if the Jesus you believe in was real.
    magine you have two children. One of your children does something wrong – say it curses, or throws a temper...
  23. Re: Trans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr Before Killing Herself

    It isn't obvious at all. You have no idea what the conversations between this child and his parents were. You have no idea what lengths the parents went to in their effort to raise this child. You're...
  24. Re: Trans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr Before Killing Herself

    I admit that I stopped reading at "some utter idiot committed suicide". Everything else you posted before or after has no credibility and therefore no value to me. You want to make sweeping...
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    Re: Faith closes the mind. It is pure idol worship.

    Not spiritual faith. In fact, the opposite is true when you are discussing spiritual faith.
    If you have spiritual faith, you have a belief in the unknowable. Secular faith is the belief in the...
  26. :) That isn't what you said. What you said was...

    :)

    That isn't what you said. What you said was "Three months from now no will remember this kid except perhaps in passing"

    That is patently, absurdly, and demonstrably FALSE.


    I didn't...
  27. Re: Trans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr Before Killing Herself

    My wife committed suicide on July 31st of this past year.

    I respectfully suggest that you shut the :wub: up because you don't have a :wub:ing clue what the :wub: you are talking about.


    Maybe...
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    Sticky: Re: I'm currently listening to

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
  29. Thread: Skyrim mods

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    Sticky: Re: Skyrim mods

    I haven't read the whole thread.

    I'm hoping a mod has been developed that changes the gameplay towards a more TES4 style. (Leveling, magic creation, etc).

    Any luck with that?
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    Re: Microwave engine actually works, says NASA

    A lot of could and should and maybes and possibly. Propaganda of the worst kind.

    I'm all about studying space a la the Viking probes or Voyager or whatever. Failures are minimal, success is...
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    Re: Microwave engine actually works, says NASA

    So what?

    We didn't go to the moon for any reason other than political capital. We didn't win any big prize for humanity. All we did was build a very expensive plane that took a handful of guys to...
  32. Thread: Who is Jesus

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    Re: Who is Jesus

    Both sentences are further proof of lack of understanding.

    "I" can't condemn anybody for anything.

    The first..it's all dogma. No need to post a rebuttal.
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    Re: Advice about buying a mobile phone

    I just upgraded from the Galaxy 3 to the Galaxy 5 with Verizon.

    I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the 5, considering how much I dislike the 3.
  34. Thread: Who is Jesus

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    Re: Who is Jesus

    Indeed, your supercilious and dismissive posts display a hostility towards a population of persons bounded with a Fermi count and labeled with a word which you have not an iota of understanding....
  35. Thread: Who is Jesus

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    Re: Who is Jesus

    Good luck with that.

    What you fail and will continue to fail to understand is faith. You want proof but there is none. There will never be any because religion(in the personal sense, not the...
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    Re: Microwave engine actually works, says NASA

    You should check the list of experiments being conducted on ISS. Some of them are so remarkably frivolous it makes you want to fly a really really big predator drone and take it out.
  37. Poll: Re: Which amendment in the original bill of rights is the most important?

    No, no. I'm with you. It's perfectly OK to oppress and murder if it's the will of the state because there is no individual sovereignty or expectations of human decency. It's all about the paper.
  38. Poll: Re: Which amendment in the original bill of rights is the most important?

    So your position on governance is suck it up. Gotcha.
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    Re: Microwave engine actually works, says NASA

    I pretty much reject the return on investment propaganda.

    There's no evidence at all to suggest that similar improvements would not have been made without NASA.
  40. Poll: Re: Which amendment in the original bill of rights is the most important?

    It isn't semantics. . People do not create natural rights. They are part and parcel of human life. You are human, you have natural rights.
    If you argue that human beings have no natural rights, then...
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