sheepdogj15

sheepdogj15

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[quote who="Dozerking" reply="24" id="1939631"] LOLZ...you know nothing about the sub prime lending mess, at all. The orginal intent of sub prime lending was a great idea, help people join the "ownership" class by easing the monthly burden, but still making them pay for property. The problem was, the program was NEVER intended for the middle class, it was intended for the lower classes, but the private companies jump all over it and sold it to the middle class, in mass numbers

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[quote who="Dozerking" reply="24" id="1939631"] LOLZ...you know nothing about the sub prime lending mess, at all. The orginal intent of sub prime lending was a great idea, help people join the "ownership" class by easing the monthly burden, but still making them pay for property. The problem was, the program was NEVER intended for the middle class, it was intended for the lower classes, but the private companies jump all over it and sold it to the middle class, in mass numbers

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[quote who="Dozerking" reply="22" id="1939623"]Holy shit did this thread bring out the hayseeds. People actually think Reagan improved this Country? LOL...Please, to anyone thinking anything remotely in this direction, talk to world economists,...[/quote] like marx? [quote]not right wing think tank economists heard on Hannity or Fox, and you will get a univeral answer.[/quote] i notice you can't actually be bothered to quote any of t

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anyways, on the topic of the thread, you cannot guage how liberal or conservative the country is by which candidate they voted for, but by how they vote the issues. from what i hear, most blacks in California voted FOR Obama AND FOR Prop 8. this suggests that as a segment black Californians are socially conservative, or at least center-right. this is but one example. if we had other issue-based polls, i bet they'd say the same thing. it's a bad ye

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[quote who="Dozerking" reply="19" id="1939606"] Our economy is falling to it's knees, and it's in large part due to the hand of Conservative economics since the Reagan years, continued partly by Clinton and much further by Bush Jr. Defense spending is big, and needs to be cut and infused into the domestic budget, ie...infrastructure etc...That and removing foreign spending will all be needed to get this Country moving financially in the right direction. If you haven't noticed,

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[quote who="Jonnan001" reply="16" id="1939566"] And still, I'm clueless as to how decreasing taxes for the rich hurts the poor at all. Even if you don't buy trickle down theory, it can't hurt others. It can only help the economy at large, the job market, and all those in it. People would argue that protectionist policies are good for the working man, but this is again another myth. I don't know who's idea it was that manufacturing jobs are the only source of good blue collar work. T

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quote who="Jonnan001" reply="15" id="1939551"]Umm - yeah - Reagan far outstripped the Republican congress.[/quote] or rather the Democratic congress and Reagan. say what you will about Reagan, Clinton, Dubya, etc. The President does not really control the agenda of the federal government. If you didn't sleep through Civics I, you'd know that: the Congress passes bills, and the President then either signs them into law or vetoes them. The President can "set" the agenda by proposing bil

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is there a place to upload custom 7DS maps? i was just thinking it'd be cool to have a downloadable archive of maps for 7DS, and lo and behold ^ here's one i made by customizing maelstrom (my fav vanilla map). i figure sometime in the next few weekends i'll make a fully custom map. http://www.msu.edu/~moserjus/sinners-Maelstrom.zip enjoy '.'

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At any rate, you can't just "ban" someone from the internet. The only way you prevent it would be to tail the individual pirate FBI-style, and there aren't enough FBI agents and anyways I'm sure they'd prefer to tail the really bad criminals. anyone with a laptop can access the internet at a free hotspot. then there's hotel kiosks, cyber cafes, your friend's house, and so on. if you are a college student, and i bet most pirates are, you have an account with your school. i suppose you c

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[quote] It's like the argument that eliminating the gas tax will lower gas prices - if the market price is 4.10/gal, then eliminating the gas tax just means that money goes straight to the gas station instead of being set aside to fix roads - the supply and demand have not changed, so, *by definition*, the market price has not changed.[/quote] wrong on two counts. well, maybe. dunno if you live in the US, if so then your gas tax isn't being set aside to fix roads. the federal tax goes t

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is it me, or are the pirate raids too tiny in early game? I don't recall them being that small without the mod, but then i usually bidded them off my back in the early game. man, with the rogues i think i found my favorite race. it's fun going into a system out numbered and chasing them away because you grabbed up several of their cruisers. they just need more variety in their cap ship options and they'd be perfect.

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Except that Obama is a socialist at best and a closet Marxist at worst. Read his commencement address at Wesleyan, e.g.: "Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in Ameri

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what'd be cool is if other ships got experience too, not just caps. they don't have to get special abilities at level ups (do you really want to go through hundreds of ships and hand pick their buffs?), but maybe they get slightly better hulls, better targeting/damage... stuff like that. level ups past 10 for caps would be awesome too.

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I can't wait to see the experiment go down in flames. Don't get me wrong, I'm a conservationist in the conservative strain (i.e., not a green nut job), there are good reasons to reduce pollution and make greater use of renewable sources. But you can't run the modern global world on solar panels. We need diesel to run our tractors and synthetic fertilizer (derived from oil) to maintain our current crop yields. The enviroNazis have no suggestions on how to maintain those yields without oi

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It will be more or less the same as it is now. You'll have the libertarians, the religious right, capitalists, socialist/communists, totalitarians, and various mixes thereof (e.g. gun toting morally conservative yet libertarian capitalist pigs like me :-D). I noticed that in game politics within the races follows these structures (as do many other games), you have the free trace / capitalist TEC, the communist Advent (though modern communists lack the technology for a mind hive, I wond

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sieges are most definitely worth it. don't forget that adding caps requires research... expensive research!!!... in cap crews. whether i go to just wipe out infrastructure or to take planets depends on the situation. If i know i can, i rush through his territory (and i do, because i do recon, hint hint), i'll pick off the frig and cap factories, defenses, and a few other structures (particularly hate broadcast centers) and move on to the next planet. if i need to establish a beach head

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Just do what I do, don't update until you are done with your current game(s). I just today updated to 1.05. If 1.1 and 7 Deadly Sins 2.0 come out before my current game ends (possibility, i think I still have 80 or so planets to conquer), I won't update either until I'm done.

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