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[quote who="Ahiodsohi" reply="13" id="2281497"] Quoting PantokratorII, reply 12 Hope u make many more! The video has a grand total of 55 downloads and 300 stream views. Not to be too much of a dick, but... why would I make another vid for this community?[/quote] Haha, exactly! That's why I stopped doing vids. After all, why bother if no one watches them? The DG community is small and outside of that no one cares. And inside of it too few care to motivate o

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My name is Ozymandias, Master of Masters. Look on my highscore, ye Mighty, and despair!

Reply to The Life Settlement Fund: Trading life and death on Wall Street in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Sheesh ... A listed company is by law required to maximize profits for the shareholder. That - in fact - is a fact. If that companies business was maintaining a profitable life settlement fund then it has to generate profits by using it's assets. Lowering life expectancy is one viable strategy in that case. This example served to emphasize the perverse effects of the current form of capitalism. And you deducted from that my lack of understanding? And the statements you quoted

Reply to The Life Settlement Fund: Trading life and death on Wall Street in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote] Ignoring the fact that Life Insurance companies have been gambling with people's lives for decades, the difference here is that the funds are going to profit when people die, however this is so far from your 'Dystopia' you've failed to the describe that even attempting to use the term to describe what's happening or what might happen negates anything meangingful you have to say.[/quote] Huh? Care to make a real sentence out of that? [quote]Seriously, your

Reply to Air travel sucks and would be easy to make better in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="pseudomelon" reply="14" id="2363591"] Wouldn't you need some sort of magnetic rail for that? One hesitates to think about the upkeep.[/quote] Like N3Rull said, you don't have to power everything at once. And one more cool thing: The rails effectively don't need maintenance or repairs because they don't wear out: The train flies over the rails and never touches them. [quote]Security is important to a point, but even though one can imagine all the ways someth

Reply to 21 Reasons Why the World Hates America in Politics Demigod Forums

hmm ... how many points are left over after we strike everything that's common to all industrialized countries?

Reply to Free download - Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Fun fact: After the first broadcast of this film, a criminal complaint was filed against Greg Palast by the Department of Homeland Security. The charge: filming "critical infrastructure".

Reply to The Life Settlement Fund: Trading life and death on Wall Street in Everything Else Demigod Forums

What's frightening are the implications of a billion dollar market whose profits rely on people dying early. Fund owners are - for the sake of profit - intrinsically opposed to every measure that prolongs the life of insured people. Even more perverse: If a listed coorporation specializes in life settlements, then it is by law required to lower humanity's life expectancy. This doesn't mean that coorporations suddenly hire hitmen to frag grandmas around the cou

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Yes. It doesn't trigger.

Free download - Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Greg Palast is a non-partisan investigative reporter who has uncovered many scandals by the corrupt and powerful. In this documentary he uncovers aspects about the flooding of New Orleans which speak not well of the people that were in charge. <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="al

The Life Settlement Fund: Trading life and death on Wall Street in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Australian finance entrepreneurs created a new product for investors to play with: The Life Settlement Fund The practice of trading Life Settlements isn't an australian phenomen, though, and it was practiced for years. But it seems like this might become the latest fad among investors. The idea behind this fund is to buy up life insurance policies from the insured and bundle them into a fund. The potential market volume is esti

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics Demigod Forums

uh huh ... like patriot act vs. legalizing buttsex marriage? let's see, one promotes individual freedom, the other limits them ... hmm. I knew that the first rebuttal would be some helpless shit to avoid defending a lost talking point.

Reply to How to win or lose the "War against Terrorism" in Politics Demigod Forums

Weeeell, it's easy to bash the evil US empire. Was practically a folk sport in old europe during the Bush era. But reality ain't as easy as "be nice to each other and then there'll peace". For one, grudges run deep and keep long (i'm not talking about europeans now). For another, even if the USA suddenly became pacifistic there'll be enough other global players who don't exactly have the best for mankind in mind. Suffice to say that a USA not fighting back against "terrorists" will ju

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics Demigod Forums

Uh-huh. So your fear of buttsex drives your hate against liberals? And conservatives want to uphold values of living but are against being told how to raise their kids? Strange. I always had the impression that it was conservatives trying to protect their kiddies from the dangers of buttsex. By the force of law. But kidding aside: Compulsory requirements (such as laws) aren't the opposite of liberty. They are the borders in which liberty can thrive. Some might

Reply to How to win or lose the "War against Terrorism" in Politics Demigod Forums

Nah, that's the status quo. Just stick to the victory conditions mentioned in the original post. USA move: Terrorist need money and manpower. Manpower is usually bought with money but in certain places (Iraq mostly) they get manpower for free. Too many people who have lost everything they ever cared for flock to terrorist groups for a bit of revenge. The USA has to eliminate this steady source of manpower. <p style="pad

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[quote who="JohnnyMathis" reply="12" id="2361921"]The problem Arrodo is that you have defined winning as having foreign military bases. To many this is an aggressive act and therefore negates any possibility of ending terrorism. Not only that but terrorists will never have enough power to erase the bases so this is a formula for endless war unless you go nuke. But even that is no guarantee because nuking civs would spawn a whole new category of terrorists. Overnight the USA would go

Reply to How to win or lose the "War against Terrorism" in Politics Demigod Forums

I see that StAcK3D_ActR has issues with the phrasing of the question. He's not the only one and the "War against Terrorism" is indeed regarded by some as a convenient construct created for the sake of the military-industrial complex. But for the sake of this little mind game I simplify reality. So just assume the followi

Reply to How to win or lose the "War against Terrorism" in Politics Demigod Forums

Terrorists move: Terrorists step up guerillia style attacks in US occupied countries in the middle east. Usage of cheap roadside bombs, sniper attacks on patrols, bombing of any institution benefitting the US order like police stations. It should cost the USA more than it does the Terrorists. Make locals afraid of dealing with americans for fear of retaliation.

How to win or lose the "War against Terrorism" in Politics Demigod Forums

The USA faces a new threat of their own chosing: Terrorism Yeah, some might argue that the "War against Terrorism" is simply an excuse to invade any country harboring terrorists (and strategic resources) or a ploy of the military industrial complex to keep the USA in an eternal war, but that's not the point. Let's assume that the USA wants to WIN for the purpose of this threat. How can the USA win this war? How can

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics Demigod Forums

[quote who="Jakob Grau" reply="271" id="2361563"] 1st of all, leftests are like the opposite of fascists. Really? Read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism (a term coined by liberal author H.G. Wells as praise, not criticism, by the way), then try to seriously claim that leftists are like the opposite of fascists. He (and Glenn Beck, BTW), correctly point out how early 20th century liberals, aka progressives, were quite enamored with fascism in general and Mussol

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[quote] I just need to (futilely) point this one thing out -- Our founding fathers were considered a radical revolutionary group! Here's a little video clip from 2001 (that was NOT under Obama) of a FEMA representative telling the police that the founding fathers were terrorists. [/quote] To be fair, if we go back far enough then germans are still nazis, all americans are genocidal invaders, all australians criminals and the jews and the italians were part of the axis

Reply to Arrows and Chance effects in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote who="Legolan" reply="7" id="2360460"]I heard someone say that it triggers the Grophyling (sp?) plate's shield effect. And when my UB partner used it, he certainly seemed to be getting shield vs. the opposing rook a lot. Can anyone confirm this?[/quote] It doesn't trigger. But if it triggers through auto then the arrows get absorbed, filling the screen with lots of green "absorbed". It just feels like it triggers.

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[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="102" id="2359812"] I'm waiting for the day when some game company like EA says: "well we could try to blame piracy but the truth is our game just plain sucked, we overpromised and underdeliverd". I'm not going to hold my breath while waiting for that to happen.[/quote] Didn't Stardock say something similar regarding Demigod?

Reply to The best of Glenn Beck in Politics Demigod Forums

Amazing. Some people think Glenn Beck is sane, honest and reporting facts. Wow.