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1195350018[/unixtime]]To be fair the government has every one so concerned with foreign terrorism, I'm not so sure the media was aware of it... [br][br]It was on the front page of the most important political blog in the country (DailyKos, if you were wondering), so if they didn't know, they are fu...

Captain_Bleach at [unixtime wrote:1195352396[/unixtime]]

What book is this "Thought Bottle" in?

Complete Arcane

Another thing that needs to go from the Constitution is recess appointments. Improvements in travel and communication technologies make the original reason for them obsolete.

1195270799[/unixtime]]Maybe I should redfine that: as with Lago's opinion, white collar crime should be punished severely.[br]On that note, fine print used in conjunction with legalese for the explicit purpose to deceive the average citizen and consumer for personal/corporate gain should be abolish...

1195227788[/unixtime]]it's actually a lot worse. when you sit down to play yugioh, you could seriously skip the game and open your wallet, whoever has the biggest bank roll wins. In magic it's at least theoretically possible for a broke player to win. [br][br]There are interesting difference betwee...

sigma999 at [unixtime wrote:1195197185[/unixtime]]"Legalese" needs to be abolished.

That's really not plausible. Most legalese is shorthand for otherwise fairly complicated concepts.

Crissa at [unixtime wrote:1195181659[/unixtime]]Oh, PS Domestic Terrorism still happens... And do we repair the damage?

To be fair, we don't repair the damage from foreign terrorism either.

1195106526[/unixtime]] I'd repeal the 3rd Amendment [br][br]Why? [br][br]Because having unnecessary laws on the books is generally a bad idea. There has never been a point where the 3rd has ever been necessary, so why have it? More specifically, I wouldn't bother to include it if I was writing a ne...

1195106125[/unixtime]][br][br] Have you ever met Frank? [br][br]No - which is probably exactly why House reminds me of Frank. Once you get to know someone and learn stuff like their favorite color and favorite food, you tend to not notice the absolutely glaringly huge similaries between them and a ...

Maj at [unixtime wrote:1195092216[/unixtime]] Love House, though. Been watching it forever - the guy reminds me of Frank.

You think House is like Frank? Have you ever met Frank?

I ask only because Frank is really not at all like House and I'm not even sure where you'd begin to get that impression.

1195098578[/unixtime]] I don't think it's a stretch to have this group claim that 'having heterosexual sex is an implied contract that you're willing to take care of a baby if one pops up, otherwise society assumes ownership'. [br][br]For there to be an implied contract, there has to be detrimental...

Somethings are particularly easy and obvious:[br][br]I'd repeal the 3rd Amendment, clarify the 2nd Amendment, eliminate the Electoral College. clarify significantly the role of the President (especially with regards to his role as CiC), make the absence of an executive privilege written into the doc...

1195002846[/unixtime]][br]That sort of victimization of sick and injured people really should get some kind of punishment, but the US legal system is loathe to punish businesses and basically lets them get away with everything short of total fraud. [br][br]That's not actually true. The American leg...

I think the DM that annoys me most is the "the bad guys predict everything" DM. The guy who sits there listening to your plans and has his enemy NPCs set up to counter it, when there is no way they could have that information.[br][br]I find this is most often used by grossly incompetent ta...

Hmm. I'm probably a pretty bad DM. I have a tendency to underchallenge groups pretty badly. Also, I've been known to fall asleep for half an hour in the middle of DMing. Of course, I do the same when playing. Or reading, working, watching tv... That usually isn't that big a deal when I DM because I ...

Crissa, I'm pretty sure you are failing to understand how their system works, and are being overly belligerent about it.[br][br]From what I gather, there is an insurance company for each state, who is required by law to pay all claims in full and everyone has to buy insurance from, who then may sue ...

1194642145[/unixtime]]I agree. What does playtesting actually entail? Finding the brokenest things you can do under the rules and explaining to the designers why they're brokenated and having them fix them prior to the game's release. When my buddies and I were playtesting Spycraft 2.0 , we did exa...

1194683183[/unixtime]]regardless of whether or not you wanted to run someone over, you've just committed vehicular battery. If you want to convince anyone that vehicular battery is somehow legal you're going to need some kind of proof. [br][br]Um...no. Intent is a requisite of both civil and crimin...

1194553880[/unixtime]]Completely national health care is certainly something I do not want to see happen in the U.S. in my lifetime. If I were a canadian I wouldn't have ever gotten approved to get my deviated (nasal)septum fixed(caused by a car accident that wasn't my fault). Not that we're going ...

1194423658[/unixtime]][br]All superhero games suck. Really. I own them all. Down to Supergame , with its use of logs. They all suck. The only one that comes close to being workable is, believe it or not, Villains and Vigilantes , where you play yourself with superpowers--and sometimes you're Hawkey...

I find that PC toys are anything complicated, and DM toys are anything simple. Running 40 different characters is exhausting assuming you aren't doing much with any of them.

1194346024[/unixtime]][br]Someone a while back did a survey and found that countries without liberal gun ownership like Canada and England had much higher rates of home invasions (robberies while residents were home) than those that the US[br] [br][br]I seem to recall hearing that people in Canada ...

1194242357[/unixtime]]I've never been a fan of the 'testing grounds' concept. Oops, your students/aspiring heroes/chosen ones are all dead. So sorry, try again.[br][br]Mind you, I'd give a lot to rip the fucking 'chosen one' concept out of the genre. Stupid unimaginative designers... [br][br]I dunn...

tzor at [unixtime wrote:1194229750[/unixtime]]Eleven amendments were proposed as a means to get the states to approve the constitution.

It was twelve. The original First Amendment was never passed.

1194126423[/unixtime]][br]The tenth says unenumerated powers belong to the states or to the people. The Feds can't do fuck-all. [br][br]That's a pretty incorrect version of what that amendment says. It, in fact, specifically does not say enumerated anywhere in it. I say specifically because that wo...