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- Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Overload
- Topic: OVERLOAD Playable Demo
- Replies: 47
- Views: 43517
Re: OVERLOAD Playable Demo
not Kickstarter cards, just an ordinary prepaid Visa or Mastercard. If you want to back at $90, get a card for about $150 (so you can be sure you can cover any overhead) and back with that, and then once it goes through, spend whatever is left on your day-to-day expenses. The reason I emphasize gett...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:50 pm
- Forum: Overload
- Topic: OVERLOAD Playable Demo
- Replies: 47
- Views: 43517
Re: OVERLOAD Playable Demo
Kickstarter only does credit cards.
You can get a pre-paid card from the grocery store. If you do, make sure it's for a bit more than your pledge -- so that if there are random fees, the whole thing doesn't fail. (And if there aren't random fees, use up the extra the next time you go shopping.)
You can get a pre-paid card from the grocery store. If you do, make sure it's for a bit more than your pledge -- so that if there are random fees, the whole thing doesn't fail. (And if there aren't random fees, use up the extra the next time you go shopping.)
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:48 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Election predictions....
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6459
Re: Election predictions....
My prediction: the "Not-Trump" vote continues to coalesce into three, then two, then finally one candidate -- either Cruz or Rubio. Kasich becomes the VP candidate. Hillary wins the D nomination on the strength of superdelegates. She picks somebody really boring and political as a running ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Yeah, all these people are crazy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2601
Re: Yeah, all these people are crazy
McCain too?woodchip wrote:the respect I once had for Romney is now gone.
From the NYT: Mr. McCain echoed their concerns about Mr. Trump’s “uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national security issues.”
What a RINO amirite?
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:22 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Trump's long list of failures...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7082
Re: Trump's long list of failures...
Trump's shaking up the status quo == Obama's hope and change Remember the phrase "Rorschach candidate"? I remember people saying it about Obama a lot -- that most people who liked him didn't have any specifics they could point to, but they liked the vague idea of "hope and change&quo...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:02 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Yeah, all these people are crazy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2601
Re: Yeah, all these people are crazy
Wake up and take a look at reality. Progressives didn't do a damned thing to create an ignorant, seething mess that is willing to vote for the first charlatran that comes along and tells them the irrational hatred and anger is OK. When I first came back to this board, one of the challenges I posed ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:06 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Yeah, all these people are crazy
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2601
Re: Yeah, all these people are crazy
"Donald Trump tells us he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not-smart" - Mitt Romney
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:47 am
- Forum: Overload
- Topic: Overload Kickstarter
- Replies: 83
- Views: 75626
Re: Overload Kickstarter
Classic Descent mode!
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:55 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: let's veer away, for a moment, from politics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 845
Re: let's veer away, for a moment, from politics
this is a recipe for very distinct division into haves and have-nots in society, as my suspicion is that the investment class will produce most of the children that hold the remaining professional jobs to supplement that basic income The alternative is that the investment class owns 100% of the rob...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:02 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: let's veer away, for a moment, from politics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 845
Re: let's veer away, for a moment, from politics
I have long been a proponent of the Basic Income. Use it to replace almost all welfare programs, as well as the majority of tax breaks.
http://www.basicincome.org/basic-income/
http://www.basicincome.org/basic-income/
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:51 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Thanks Trumptards...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 403
Re: Thanks Trumptards...
Still in the same spot as before -- "Not Trump" is kicking the crap out of "Trump". He didn't pull 50% anywhere (48.8% in Massachusetts is the only one even close.) If Carson and Kasich both drop and throw their support behind Not-Trump, he'll fall to third in a lot of states.
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:07 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: maybe the KKK isn't all that bad....
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1575
Re: maybe the KKK isn't all that bad....
And Trump has some control over who his message resonates with? From four posts ago: ”Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practic...
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:27 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: To the idiots that are voting for Trump...
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1609
Re: To the idiots that are voting for Trump...
by the way, the above link has a sidebar link to another great article about how Progressives have been proven right in all the stuff we used to say about Evangelicals(shallow and focused on control, not freedom). Actually, the sidebar article is a terrible repackaging of a tiny part of an actually...
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:05 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: maybe the KKK isn't all that bad....
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1575
Re: maybe the KKK isn't all that bad....
”Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the va...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: for those who missed last night's debate
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1094
Re: for those who missed last night's debate
this wasn't the R-vs-D major candidate debate. This was the Republican primary debate. It wasn't about impressing voters for the general; it was about trying to hasten Trump's demise. Showing that Trump wilts when subjected to his own tactics. Wouldn't you agree that the sooner Trump drops out, the ...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:08 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speaking of Trumpbots...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 688
Re: Speaking of Trumpbots...
Did he circumvent the law in the process? Probably not. But given the degree to which his rhetoric is xenophobic, not merely anti-illegal but anti-Mexican in general, it's a strange juxtaposition. a fear that the people might actually want what he's selling. When you listen to what he's actually se...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 5:36 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Let's make them...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 860
Re: Let's make them...
Perhaps the problem isn't how much money is being spent on education, but instead how the money is being allocated and spent within the education system in cases like this, money is the ONLY issue .... money spent on other things is NOT a red herring in cases like this, the way money is being alloc...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:59 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Let's make them...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 860
Re: Let's make them...
The US spends more on education, per student, than any other country . Perhaps the problem isn't how much money is being spent on education, but instead how the money is being allocated and spent within the education system, and the emphasis on testing over learning, and the cookie cutter approach, ...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panthers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1009
Re: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panth
This small set of data show two things Actually, it shows zero things. Because it's not enough data, nor enough time, to draw any sort of significant conclusions. Don't be that guy who misuses statistics when they happen to twist in favor of a position you hold. is there evidence of a spike in poli...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Let's make them...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 860
Re: Let's make them...
Gist shared a few scenarios for next year, emphasizing that they were simply to show the magnitude of the situation. “These are NOT decisions or even options at this point,” she wrote. “Rather, I’m trying to give you a sense of what it takes to put together a package of reductions that meet what we...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 2:14 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panthers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1009
Re: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panth
Actually, it shows zero things. Because it's not enough data, nor enough time, to draw any sort of significant conclusions.callmeslick wrote:This small set of data show two things
Don't be that guy who misuses statistics when they happen to twist in favor of a position you hold.
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panthers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1009
Re: blame Sharpton, blame Beyonce, blame the New Black Panth
Small sample size. 8 killings?
The Washington Post looked into the statistics early last year, going back about a decade and looking at thousands of slain officers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fac ... ll-police/
The Washington Post looked into the statistics early last year, going back about a decade and looking at thousands of slain officers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fac ... ll-police/
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3000
Re: Here we go again
your lovely Obama govt have decided to eschew all judicial processes by drone killing suspects along with the innocent people around them. Yeah Gitmo is a terrible situation. At least the prisoners are well taken care of and their families and friends are still alive. You act like those are the onl...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:30 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3000
Re: Here we go again
You'd rather burn the Constitution and what it stands for simply because someone with an (R) after their name wrote a memo saying it was all ok No, I wouldn't. But you've always been insistent on misrepresenting me, so why should I expect it to stop now? Innocence is innocence, that is where the de...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:04 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Dear Trump fan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1045
Re: Dear Trump fan
A Challenge to Trump Supporters: defend his conservatism.
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
NO, it is nothing like the Dems in 2002, 2006 or any other date you'd care to cite. I think you're too caught up in the "identical" thing that I never argued. But hey, at this point we're just making the same assertions over and over again. You assert that the situations are "nothing...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:25 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3000
Re: Here we go again
Innocent people die every single day in every single country. Every state in the union has, at some point, put to death an innocent person. Can't ignore the law because it doesn't fit your narrow view of how this country should act towards our enemy I said we should shut down Gitmo. I said we shoul...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Trump wins SC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1618
Re: Trump wins SC
many of my Republican friends are hoping for something that feels like Kasich/Rubio. I seem to be the only one who doesn't mind Cruz I don't mind Cruz. But I think Kasich/Rubio is a stronger pairing. A bit more moderate, a bit more likeable, a bit more positive of an approach to conservatism. I thi...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:27 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Twenty years behind russia and china...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 543
Re: Twenty years behind russia and china...
1) McAfee is a known crazy. Used to be widely respected in the security world; now he's not. 2) The FBI is a joke when it comes to cybersecurity. That doesn't mean the entire US government is. Just the FBI. They never made it a budget priority. They haven't hired or trained people who are really goo...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:23 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3000
Re: Here we go again
Except the guy wasn't innocent Then, why was he released? This exchange pretty well sums up the entire issue. On the one hand, there are some very bad people locked up in Guantanamo, and some very bad people who have been released and then showed up on the battlefield later. On the other hand, ther...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:11 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
•One-on-one meetings: 5 You're trying really, really hard to try to minimize one set of trends and maximize another. You're going out of your way to diminish the relevance of a guy who has had five one-on-one visits with POTUS, in order to support your assertion that Trump represents an entirely di...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:26 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Dear Trump fan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1045
Re: Dear Trump fan
You were criticizing the article that Ferno posted -- which he got from me, and which was written by definitely-not-a-democrat Matt Walsh. I'm just pointing out that the "low information democratic voter" trope doesn't work because of that. (FWIW Ferno also didn't vote for Obama in 2012, o...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Dear Trump fan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1045
Re: Dear Trump fan
in the last 4 presidential elections, I voted for Bush, Bush, McCain, and Romney.
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:41 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Dear Trump fan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1045
Re: Dear Trump fan
The author of the piece is Matt Walsh, who is not in any way a "low information democratic voter".woodchip wrote:Just goes to show you how easy the low information democratic voters can be led by the nose.
Ferno got the piece from me, and I'm also not a "low information democratic voter".
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 12:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
when they go off the rails, someone WITHIN THE RANKS loudly tells them to sit down and shut up. The Republican establishment seems pretty keen on criticizing Trump. absolutely NOTHING herein equates to the level of disgusting filth out of the GOP(largely Trump) I do happen to find equivalency betwe...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:41 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
attempting to make equivalent completely distinct issues. The Dems may have had some within the ranks decrying 'rednecks' .... but that is wholly different than a major candidate whipping up rallies with hatred against Muslims,Mexicans etc No, not exactly the same thing. But remember Michael Moore ...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 12:19 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
the nation seriously needs something akin to a political enema to flush out the hate, xenophobia and acceptance of ignorance To be charitable, I assume you've forgotten the similar forms of hate and xenophobia (against "rednecks") and acceptance of ignorance that were prevalent among Demo...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:40 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Pope Borgia
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3651
Re: Pope Borgia
weren't you saying in another thread that you don't want the GOP to die because you want a competitive political landscape?callmeslick wrote:wave goodbye to the GOP
This should bring sadness, not joy.
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:56 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Gish Gallop.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 333
Re: The Gish Gallop.
The classical name for this is "snowjob" -- an attempt to overwhelm someone with low-quality information, as if burying them in a blizzard and then complaining that they haven't removed every single snowflake. One of my rules for dealing with an apparent snowjob is to ask someone to specif...
- Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:55 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Trump wins SC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1618
Re: Trump wins SC
and now the scare articles about Trump are also coming from conservative sources, and you don't believe them?woodchip wrote:during Obama's run in 2008 I could of linked just as many scare articles by conservative sources