lljksilk
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Doing pretty well. My oldest son is in high school now, and my daughter is in 2nd grade. Just life getting busy.
Hard to believe I've been registered on here for 14+ years.
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Seems like it works. Long time no see everyone.
SC, you and I go back and forth on Twitter periodically. And on the SA forums. @lljksilk
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The editor of the journal suggested we take pictures of ourselves holding the latest issue of the journal. I did this instead (apologies for the poor image and sound quality):
Far more talented than me.
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I'm still alive. Haven't been on here in a while. How goes it?
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Kick ass to see people rolling back in.
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Good to see you back Aleksey. Been a while.
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Hey guys. Not sure what we've got left, but putting this out there if anyone wants to report in and group up.
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Looking good.
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Been a while... clicked 'like'
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If you want to increase the difficulty, you can export your ship designs and allow the AI to use them. The vanilla designs are easily countered and the AI does not generate new ones without your help. Give the AI better ships, learn to counter, repeat.
Also... wow, I haven't been on here in forever. Surprised I remembered my password.
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Howdy folks. Checking in. More RL drama has been keeping me away from gaming in general.
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IANAL but trademarks can be lost if you don't actively defend them. I'd just have your attorney send them a friendly notice that 3000AD is trademarked and ask them if they could rename it something else.Probably not. Even though 3000AD is a trademark. But someone sent it to me over the weekend and I passed it on to the attorney. He will let me know when he's checked into it. Thanks. -
Eh, I've owned all three and the only thing I use my PS3 for is blu-ray movies. The gaming situation is horrible, most online games work better on the 360, the 360 comes with a headset so I can actually talk with my friends, the 360 matchmaking is easier, and so many other things I could name. Most PS3 games are average, and none are really 'system sellers' unless you are an absolute fan of the series (MGS4). MGS4 wasn't even a game as far as I was concerned... just an interactive movie. For every hour of gameplay I had the controller sitting in my lap for 45 minutes watching a movie. Then it'd give me 30 seconds of gameplay and then play another 15 minute movie. The two games I've enjoyed on the PS3: Warhawk, and Uncharted. Otherwise the situation has been pretty lame.
Where is Sony's "Home"? Isn't it 2-3 years late now? Where are Sony's system sellers? White Knight Chronicles?
Sony is taking so long to get their act together, that by the time they do surpass the 360 we'll have the XBox 720 with Indigo-Ray drive that can play Blu-Ray, HDDVD, LaserDisc, and 8Track tapes via a hologram loader.
The 'free' PSN isn't comparable to XBL in terms of what you get. Right now the 360 feels like the more complete experience for gaming. PS3 for movies. Wii for Mario/Zelda/Metroid fans.
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Talk about threadnomancy (and a huge coincidence).Hey, just wanted to add my prayer to the list mate. You probably don't know me (I'm pretty sure I don't know you
) That doesn't mean anything though, I can still pray for you if I want to. It has been round 9/10 months since you updated us so I really hope things are going alright here. I've got two small children and a strange family myself so I can't even imagine what you must be going through with all this. I couldn't take it if someone took my children away and it would only add sting to it if it were my grand parents. My wife's mother threatened, before my daughter was even born, to call child protective services on us because our apparment at the time was a mess. With both of us were working full time and there were no children in the place, it was clean and sanitary it just had a lot of stuff piled up. At that point I wanted nothing to do with her but over time we've got back on good terms. She still makes remarks about how dirty it is every time she sees our house but from what my wife tells me we do a much better job of keeping things clean than she did when they were growing up 
I don't know what I would do if she suddenly took us to court and tried to steal our children away, I would probably have a break down. I admire the fact that you've handled yourself as well as you have and I pray that things go your way and your childrens way mate. Good luck!After some recent events, I had decided to come back here and reflect on the past and noticed someone was reading this thread also. Much to my surprise, they posted as well.
My children are fine, and I have a daughter now, as well as a new wife. (One tends to follow the other)
My ex-wife has been convicted of Aggravated Child Abuse and Child Neglect in the state of Florida, and is awaiting sentencing in October. She faces 30 years in state prison.
Reading this thread again, I sort of shake my head at the bullet I dodged by her acting psychotic instead of friendly.
I'll check in at some point for replies, but you can contact me via myspace (myspace.com/danielcooper2006) or YIM dc2005silk or AIM dc2004silk or MSN ([email protected]) or email (mcooper7470 ((AT)) charter.net)
God bless.
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Born on May 4, 2008. I'm proud to announce the birth of my third child, and my first daughter, and my wife's first baby: Callie Jordan.
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Well, if that is the case why outlaw counterfeiting? If all you need to create value is a print-press after all.To put it simply, we SAY gold is worth this therefore it is. How is that different than SAYING a ten dollar bank note is worth this therefore THAT is?Having a commodity on which to base a currency has the advantage of being finite. You have a set amount of money in circulation, each denomination of that money has a set purchasing power in relation to your commodity, and it remains fairly stable because that commodity does not increase/decrease drastically.
Creating money from nothing, backing it with nothing, then making promises (Medicaid/Medicare) which surpass even what you've created is a recipe for disaster. We've promised so much in entitlement spending that by 2019 our entire budget will only be enough to cover two programs:
Medicare/Medicaid & Social Security.
That is it. We won't be able to meet those obligations.
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I partially agree with this - though I believe having our currency backed by something other than "full faith and credit" would be a good thing. It limits the amount you can print, it keeps the value stable, and it prevents the wholesale destruction/dissolution of banks, etc. when things go bad.I doubt that there will be a major crash, and I certainly wouldn't invest in precious metals as they are next to worthless as a true commodity (ie, if you actually own them).The devaluation of the dollar can be primarily attributed to the Chinese diversifying their reserves. However, the fact that we are on a fiat currency allows us to value actual exports at market worth, and being the world's bread basket will help assure a recovery of the dollar.
Going to a system similar to the Gold Standard would be useless, as gold is a practically meaningless commodity. Oil would be a better standard, but in the era of international dependency a fiat currency seems unfortunately neccessary.
The entire industry is being ravaged because of Enron-like accounting also. All these companies gave out subprime loans - then insured them - then counted the insurance as an asset. We've seen major banks going down in the past weeks. We've seen our currency devalued before swiss currency and canadian currency - something which has never happened in my lifetime... and I'm not sure if it has ever happened.
Something bad is going on... I just hope it isn't an unstoppable trend... I think the stimulus payment just delays the inevitable. China wouldn't be diversifying if we weren't tanking so bad because of our own poor choices.
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Thank you guys. It has been a good one.
I'm expecting my 3rd child (girl this time) in May also, so things are going pretty good.
Lots better than 2003 anyway.
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My personal opinion is that the value of Gold/Silver is not increasing. The value of the dollar itself is decreasing, thus it takes more dollars to purchase these commodities.
The dollar will collapse if we don't get rid of the Fed and start backing up our currency with something of real value.
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Considering that Fox News is a NEWS network, and therefore is in the business of reporting NEWS, and Ron Paul is CLEARLY not making NEWS in any way, shape, or form, it is not odd that a NEWS network such as Fox doesn't spend a lot of time on Paul.
Look, I initially thought that Ron Paul was, shall we say, a TAD out of touch. But I was willing to think that perhaps I was mistaken. However, the reaction of his supporters to his lack of news coverage, EVEN THOUGH he's not even a SECOND tier candidate, tends to lend credibility to any assertion that he, AND his supporters, are out of touch.
News is NEWS. A PRIVATE NEWS NETWORK, no matter WHAT network it is, is NOT OBLIGATED to give equal coverage to all candidates. Instead, due to them having to make MONEY because they are PRIVATE, they will give coverage to FRONT - RUNNERS.
Ron Paul and his supporters have no one to blame but themselves.
Unless, of course, we'd prefer Stalinism.
I disagree:
Ron Paul raised more money than any other GOP candidate in the 4th quater.
Ron Paul was barred from a Fox News debate in NH (and the NH GOP dropped sponsorship as a result) even though he beat 2 other candidates who were allowed to attend in number of votes.
Ron Paul was virtually ignored in terms of news coverage on Fox - I even did a search via Google site:Foxnews.com "Ron Paul" and the only stories which come up in the results are either negative or repeating disproven claims.
CNN/MSNBC neither of them had a problem covering Ron Paul (granted, in the amount of recognition he earned so they didn't focus on him) so I'm just wondering what Fox News didn't like about him that caused them to give much less coverage as well as attempt to marginalize him with certain debate questions.
Let me be fair: Fox News can choose to cover/not cover whatever stories they want. I have no problem with this at all.
What the did however, was specifically biased - i.e. editing Ron Paul out of replays of debates, editing references (3 - 4 words max) out of reprinted AP articles, and basically showing that there was more going on than just ignoring him. This wasn't a bias of not covering him so much as an explicit bias of Orwellian-style editing of the News.
Youtube has been very wonderful in highlighting the bias of Fox. There was an "undecided voter" group of stories they kept running around IA/NH and they got busted using plants who were supposedly undecideds from either state.
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I voted for and gave money to Dr. Paul's campaign.
I voted along with about 3% in Alabama. I'm sure if everyone who said "I'd vote for him but he won't win" had actually voted for him we might be talking about nominee Paul. As-is people are scared to death of getting McCain and are running toward American taliban.
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My wife's birthday doings are going on so I won't be able to make it.Well, since everyone can now make the second session, it seems a little superfluous to hold two meetings, but it's a bit late to change things now.I'll pop in around 11 am to see if anyone's around and ask Ixos to set up his AWA server for this evening European time (12pm or 3pm EST)
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A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan û not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the democratic rule of the West's ally Hamid Karzai.
The fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has led to domestic and international protests, and deepening concern about erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed.
Mr Kambaksh, 23, distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University with the aim, he said, of provoking a debate on the matter. But a complaint was made against him and he was arrested, tried by religious judges without û say his friends and family û being allowed legal representation and sentenced to death.
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"The procedure of this trial and charges against Kambakhsh are in no way different from the trials and inquisitions of Dark Ages period (under the Taliban)," the Solidarity party, made up young Afghans, said in a statement.Kambakhsh was sentenced by a court last week for allegedly mocking Islam and the Koran, and for distributing an article which said Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.
Afghanistan's upper house of parliament said on Wednesday it backed the death sentence against Kambakhsh.
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"The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend."
- George W. Bush
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I agree.Forget Fox News. Did anyone else notice that MOST of the people to appear on that clip against Obama were GUESTS of Fox News?I guess Fox News should be sure to censor freedom of speech and their guests so that liberals won't have to feel so "threatened". Freedom of speech evidently only REALLY means, "freedom of speech we agree with".
Fox News has been caught red handed removing Ron Paul from coverage.
In the Fox News debate post-New Hampshire Ron Paul gave a scathing retort of the Fox News moderator. Fox News subsequently removed that part of the debate from the re-airings. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSMjYXFYmTY)
In another controversy, Fox News purchased an AP article about Wyoming - and then edited out all references to Ron Paul. (
)Fox News also refused to invite him to the New Hampshire debate even though they invited Guiliani (whom Ron Paul has a 4-1-1 record against).
Fox News can of course do what they like (free market, etc.) - but they shouldn't pretend to be "Fair and Balanced" when they have already showed multiple times in the past month alone that they try to fix the news.
Edit: I also remember they got busted in Iowa using the same group of people in supposedly "random" samplings of undecided voters to claim that Guiliani/Romney were the best candidates.
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This was a couple years ago for me. Finally got back to college and graduated with honors. Life is a fun journey.
Haven't had a bunch of time for games until recently, since I was working and going to school full-time as well as being a single parent.
Now that I'm 33 enjoying my mid-life crisis and riding my Harley Davidson around.