The Gaming Den

Probably because no one had called shenanigans on what was going on until the Wildfire guys got sick of not being paid, at which point all hell seems to have broken loose. It's easier to chime in than to be the first to raise his voice. There seem to be a lot of people that want to make this into a...

Hey, Comstar, they're in ur base, killin' ur doodz! What, you are going to do NOTHING?

You say that the reason is clear to you why Comstar felt that they couldn't retaliate in kind against WoB.

What reason do you see?

Clutch

The media is so conservative in the US that actual trolling from the right is treated as genuine constructive commentary. They are fiscally conservative, because they're all owned by Mega-Corps, but they aren't all socially conservative. I do however agree that the News Media in this country leaves...

Conservative Plan: Eliminate all forms of progressive and even proportional taxation. Replace all taxation with a pole tax. Everyone pays the same literal amount, those who can't afford or won't pay go to jail. Is there a difference between a "Pole" tax and a "Poll" tax? What ab...

A thread to discuss the various incarnations of BattleTech.

Strengths, weaknesses, future, and past.

It's all in play.

Clutch

The best thing they can do with the Jihad is just let a lot of in-game time pass, they should just jump to 3133. In that year it's been established what's happening in the central republic, but all the other houses and clans are pretty much a clear canvas for them to paint on. I disagree. 20 years ...

Okay, I'm sorry Frank, but being remorseful that you didn't see the forest for the trees and accepting partial responsibility for embezzlement aren't the same thing. Every swinging johnson that worked at that place knew something wasn't right. I wonder why they didn't speak up until just before the ...

What? You mean Bills has never stolen/philandered/defrauded/accidently-withdrew-$850K? True, he merely aided and abetted. Which is not quite as bad, I guess. So let me get this straight, you believe Randall Bills helped Coleman embezzle/comingle money that belongs to the company he co-owns? Yeah, r...

What do you mean 'we,' white man? I like taxation just fine. I was speaking more to events that occured directly after the revolution. Shays' Rebellion, the Whisky Insurrection, and various other armed protests against Hamiltonian measures to bring in revenue for the federal government. Even the es...

I might point out that studies of the number of news articles on the FBI bombing vs the Times Square bomb? Or the failed bomb on an airplane? What peace protest included destroyed police cars? Oh, right. none in the last decade . -Crissa What do you mean by that first sentence? It seems incomplete.

Teabagging: A new "astroturf" political movement in the United States with thousands of adherents and no coherent ideology, with the messages of "hands off my healthcare" and "don't tax me", named after the act of placing one's testicles on another person's face. That'...

I agree. Bills has never had regard for the average RnF gamer. What? You mean Bills has never stolen/philandered/defrauded/accidently-withdrew-$850K? True, he merely aided and abetted. Which is not quite as bad, I guess. I take some umbrage with this. Randall Bills does respect the average gamer. I...

You guys are bat-shit crazy.

Let it go.

"It's over man, Wormer dropped the big one."

Clutch

Seriously, it's not worth answering any of your shit Yet you did. Let me put it like this - why have you escaped the poverty trap, when so many others are unable to? I don't know. Luck? Fate? I'm usually the smartest man in the room? It wasn't from a name, I'm a Taylor. Clutch P.S. It might have be...

So, no, Americans really can't complain about "poverty", because the sort of poverty Americans experience isn't the same sort of starvation level shit that you see in places like Africa. Of course we can't. The "Poor" in this nation wear 100 dollar shoes. But it begs the absolut...

This kind of borderline-racist anti-immigrant bullshit is really fucking disheartening. Bring on 'Moorish Spain'. Bring on an ethnically-diverse population. I cannot see those things as anything other than good. Then you can't see. Clutch P.S. As a dyed in the wool humanist I really wish you were r...

Mexico's actually fairly well developed economically, so if you simply divided GDP with population the result is a respectable average income for each Mexican. The problem is with the distribution. Mexico has a fairly wide divide between the ultra rich and the ultra poor. So you probably won't see ...

I give you hard numbers and you give me a subjective anecdote? The kinds of lies my friend, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Statistically Mexico is a burgeoning nation with a strong a healthy Middle Class, (so long as you don't look too closely). Here are some numbers for you: Mexico: Population: ...

Huhhhh? Mexico is within striking distance of Russia and Turkey ($12,400 to $14,800 and $12,000) and modestly ahead of Brazil and South Africa ($9,700 and $9,500) in median income. Of course this doesn't hold a candle to the United States ($45,800) but the distance of Mexico from the incomes of Sou...

The lawyer told the Justices, for example, that one of the chief sponsors of the anti-gay marriage referendum in Washington had his family sleep in the living room to protect them from retaliation. Unexpected ally in Freedom of Speech ruling . -Crissa Now all they have to do is deal with intimidati...

This of course assumes that the United States doesn't do something really, really dumb like close its borders in the near future and Mexico doesn't join the ranks of the most industralized nation during that time. There's a much better chance of the former than the latter. Mexico is an absolute bas...

I missed someone using nuclear weapons to take out Madrid.

Man, don't even joke about that.

Clutch

The two conventions in Pittsburgh would be more entertaining if they were not miles apart: At the airport Downtown At DragonCon 2000 the Salvation Army was having thier National Convention in an adjacent center. The two crowds mixed surprisingly well. That was the year that the FASA booth was right...

A recipe for disaster would be a low native birth rate and a low immigration rate - because that would mean that the actual number of workers in the next generation would be less than the number of workers in the last generation. As long as reductions in birth rate can continue to be made up with b...

Spain is hardly screwed - with a debt to GDP ratio that is less than half of Germany's despite a massive stimulus program, and despite all the talk of PIGS Spain has low interest rates amongst the EU nations (Lower than Irelands for example, despite Ireland embracing fiscal austerity) they are tota...