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Frankly, I'm just a cheapass. There, I said it. 

Plus, I see a certain level of piracy as the norm. There's been digital piracy as long as there's been digital media. Hell, there was *analog* piracy when there was only analog media (there's a famous episode where Charles Dickens visited New York in the late 1800s and was outraged to see counterfeit copies of his books being sold for 5 cents on the street corners).

I feel that it's just a natural marginal effect of marketing information. More people want the information than are willing to pay what the owner is charging. With material products, they have little recourse but to pay or do without (or purchase a cheap knock-off). With information, it's far easier for someone else to reproduce the product.

I think my perspective is permanently skewed towards sympathy towards pirates because I still fondly remember the demo and sneakernet scene from the 80's, when everyone had a Commodore, and the big thing was to trade around floppies with software that came from a friend who knew a guy, who got it from this other guy, who knew a guy who actually had a 300 baud modem and spent all night downloading this from a BBS....

My one hard and fast rule is that if you're going to pirate data, you don't try to make money off it. Here in the US, that's not much an issue. Overseas (especially Asia), there are street markets chock-full of pirated software for sale. Not so kosher with that, although I have to confess to buying some pirate compilations of Koei games in Shanghai just because they had a few games on there I'd never even heard of.

And I grabbed a movie, just for the mash-up cover art. The title was "Mary, Mother of Jesus" but the cover art was a mashup of stills from the movie (crucifixion scenes mostly) with stills from Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, King Arthur and a few other fantasy movies. I figured either this was some serious false advertising, or TEH BEST MOVIE EVAR. Sadly, it was just some made-for-TV Bible story movie with a distinct lack of dragons, armored Messiahs and orc armies. But for 10¥, the cover art was worth it either way. In that case, I don't consider it rewarding piracy but rather rewarding the mashup artist.

Universal healthcare as it stands is a hazard in the making. First off, what will happen when you give reckless people the same care as people that need some serious help? Ever watch Jackass? Now they'll be everywhere.

Do you honestly think "reckless" people consider the state of the healthcare system before doing something stupid? Do you think they consider ANYTHING before doing something stupid? No--that's why they're reckless. Moreover, how is this different from the current system? If I show up at the hospital with burns all over my body, are they going to ask me how I got them, and then modify the quality of treatment I receive based on my response? Doesn't matter if I got them trying to put out a house fire, flash-fry a turkey, or baking crystal meth--I get treated regardless. Also doesn't matter if I have insurance or not (at least up front).

Stack atop that, with abortions being funded by the government

Which they're not

"backed up" by those against abortions is just asking for a civil war making the Republicans the bad guys, along with just about every other conservative.

If you mean a cultural civil war, we're already at year 30+. If you mean an actual civil war, I seriously doubt many anti-abortion folks would actually be willing to take up arms for their cause. Those that already do, we have laws and prisons to handle them.

With the passing of this, morality will be none more than a passing nightmare to the nation, and there will be no limits to what can be researched, how the "materials" will be acquired (Stem cells anyone? Those are usually made/researched from the remains of aborted fetuses (whole babies), some of them almost complete children. Quicker progress, but monsterous process. This will be funded by those entirely against it; and more supporting alternative methods which are just as effective.). Follow along with that, the reckless youth and the lack of proper sexual education and all sorts of things related (teen pregnancies and etc.) and declining morals throughout the media and society; this can get ugly fast. Plus, just in case many "out there" fears are true; we're dying from the inside, and passing this, although with healing results in the beginning... Well, venom is a funny thing.

Cartoon science horror show characterization combined with slippery slope fallacy. Might as well tack on something about Obama breeding an army of Clone Troopers from fetal DNA to man his fleet of black helicopters.

Why did the Democrats need to wangle an easier way to "Yay"?

Really? This is a question? I can't fathom the gall of Republicans (and this isn't directed at you) who did everything in their power to throw up obstacles, drag out the process and generally obstruct like there was an Olympic medal for obstructing, then argue that the bill is obviously bad because the Democrats had to struggle and work the system to get it passed. Admittedly, with a 60-vote majority in the Senate for a while there, if the Democrats had the kind of party discipline that the Republicans do, they could have passed this in a week (and the Republicans would have screamed that they were being bullies and ramrodding legislature through a rubber-stamp Congress).

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That notion is false, I believe. You could make a custom workshop to create metal mechanisms, and even have it use the mechanics skill. They would be quality-less, but that doesn't matter unless you're using weapon traps, in which case, why are you using weapon traps? Wimp. 

In the current version you can have metal mechanisms, made in the forge, with qualitiy modifiers, so I'm not so sure I believe you. The only metal mechanism in vanilla is bright blue and rather valuable, but modders have allowed for others.

I thought the "bright blue" mechanisms were made from raw adamantine rock, and so were "rock" not metal. Just like making one out of Native Gold doesn't make it metal. It's still rock.

Have a look at the raws. Adamantine will have the tag [ANY_USE] this will allow it to be used for, well, anything. Furniture, weapons, armour, clothes and even mechanisms. So if you add that tag to iron or steel, you'll also be able to make iron or steel mechanisms. And clothes, but that's just a minor 'inconvenience'.

I dunno, I think +Steel toga+ would be the height of dwarf fashion. Especially if it menaces with spikes. (Be glad they don't wear thongs...)

Water and and magma are still the only fluids that will be able to accumulate to an actual depth level, correct? 'Cause it would be a nice megaproject to craft a sea of blood over top of the sea of magma, and wind up with a sea of boiling blood. Because...well, does a sea of boiling blood NEED a reason?

I always set the posts per page on any forum to the highest possible, so it's still 298 for me.

I've read that it's (likely/assured) that every single map will contain magma, but I can't seem to find anything relating to how that magma can be manipulated. Are Metal Mechanisms being added? Are there new Magma-safe stones? Could you randomly find a Bauxite Golem in the Underground, smash him into bits and carve him into a Mechanism? Something else I haven't thought of?

I can't remember where I got this notion from, but I seem to remember metal mechanisms being an option now. Steel and/or nickel would suffice.

Funny, I just took it as "Anybody who would wear this beard is a douche."

I guess I'm closest to the "Bunny-Down" myself.

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Quote from: RedKing on January 27, 2010, 12:55:47 pm

Half an hour after my wife goes into labor. Actually, that wouldn't be so bad, cause then I could download it at the hospital and play whlie she's sleeping during the early stages.

So, it's more likely to be half an hour after the baby's born, when I won't have a free moment (or sleep) for the next two months. 

Damn. I lost.

Congrats on the new baby?

Thanks. So far, I've managed not to use him as an arrow shield or drop him down stairs. That's a good beginning.

but what if they ARE the son of their profession? In real life this is obviously impossible, but in DF? It would not surprise me in the slightest if I went into legends mode and found a dwarf who was "Son of Carpenter" or "Daughter of mason".

Actually, I'm expecting "Urist McUnknownCreature". That always bugs me in Legends mode...you'd think it would at least say "unknown dwarf/elf/human/gobbo/etc", since there's no cross-species breeding as of yet.