Darkling

quote:Originally posted by CyKlone: Just a small question like that. Ive read the manual and im kinda new at BCM/UC game. I was wondering if you can board other ships for capture. CK Sorry, not yet, maybe in the next one.

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Yeah but does the CEO and the board of directors/executives at the head office do it too? Well Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank started Home Depot with one store, and yes they used to push carts and everything, but I think they stopped doing the "2 wks at the store thing" about 10 years ago. Of course, I stopped working there about 6 or 7 years ago, so I don't know what other things have changed.

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quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: If anyone is being devisive in this country its the Republicans. Remember Willie Horton? I don't think GOP leadership is made up of racist but they do very little to distance themselves from people of that ilk.I'm still trying to figure this one out? *Willie Horton was a Conviced Killer that was allowed to go out on Governer Dukakis' "Furlough" Program. You don't think that the Republicans should have used that as an example of how he was soft on crime? Why? Was he black? If he was, WTF does that have to do with anything? Fact is he was a conviced KILLER that Dukakis let go out unsupervised, who subsequently raped a woman and stabbed her fiance? We shouldn't all be outraged by this? *The fact that in 1976 Governor Dukakis vetoed a bill to ban furloughs for first-degree murderers, should not have been pointed out, simply because Horton was black? I don't get it? *The fact is that By March 1987, Dukakis had commuted the sentences of 28 first-degree murderers. This is NOT a black/white/Racist issue, it's a Crime & Punishment issue. The fact that Dukakis was being soft as a cuddly bear on crime was rightfully pointed out by the Republicans, since obviously, the Democrats were not going to say anything agaist their own guy. Oh and one other thing, it was the Democrats who tried to paint it as a Racist issue, that you so eagerly bought. *(The majority of this material was taken from the article "Getting Away with Murder," by Robert James Bidinotto, which appeared in Reader's Digest, July 1988.)

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: Do you really think MLK if alive today would be a Republican, The republican party of today is much different than the one that existed then. And please spare me the "we know whats better for you than you" crap. With all due respect you dont know what the hell your'e talking about.Where the hell did I say that "We know what's better for you than you?" Isn't that the Democrats line? I mean hell why do they want to tax us so much, because they feel that they know how to spend our money better than we do. The only thing that I said is; "Trust or not, you must admit that Blacks have gained more economically under the Reagan, Bush Era than the Johnson through Carter Era". Numbers don't lie, during the Reagan Era ALONE, more Blacks entered the Middle class than all of the years from Johnson through Carter combined.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: Do you yourself still think the key facets you refer to still apply to todaysGOP? If so why are so many African Americans of the same mind regarding the GOP's motives? Simple, because the Democrats have conditioned us to think that the Federal Government is the end all & Be all answer to our problems. Which is why, to Democrats, the way you "help" someone, is to take money out of my(taxpayers) pocket and give it to someone in the form of some government program, like Welfare or Job training. Either that or some sort of Job protection in the form of trade barriers or regulations. Republican's don't think this way, our idea of helping people is letting people keep more of their own money so they can start a business hire employees, reduce regulations to keep the job engine moving. It's a fundamentally different way of thinking. If you saw the level of regulations that I have to deal with, with my measley 6 employees, you would be astonished. I just want the government off my back so I can get back to work.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: As to Stev's point regarding blacks and thier politics, anecdotally as a member of a middle class black family, I see very little inroads being made by the Republican party. ... My friends and associates who are in the same socio-economic class display a distrust of the GOP due to the strong influence of the right wing. I find this very interesting, considering that one of the key facets to the formation of the replubican Party was the Right Wing doctrine of freedom of all men regardless of race, color or creed. It was the Republicans who risked war with the South to free the slaves. It was the Replublicans that gave non-land owners in the U.S. the right to vote. It was the Republicans "Right Wing Agenda" that gave women the power to vote, and all along the Democrats were opposed, until of course it was popular, not to oppose. But Just remember this, Would Democrats EVER fight for the Black man, as the Republican's did? If it meant war? Martin Luther King, Jr. was a card carrying member of the Republican Party and it was the Replublican Party that pushed throught most of the original Civil Rights legislation. Only after the Democrats saw how much popular support there was for equal rights, did they come in and steal the Republican's thunder with the Affirmative Action bill. In essence reverse discrimination! Again, they don't do what is morally right, only what they beleive is popular. But, their plan worked and it worked beautifully, the Democrats were viewed as the heroic champion of the black man by stealing the Rebubliican's issues, just as Clinton tried to claim responsibility for Welfare reform. But just keep this in mind. Did Blacks climb out of their socio-economic rut while under the Johnson era through the Carter era, or was it during the Reagan & Bush era that they had the most significant advances in prosperity. Distrust or not, you must admit that the Republican Party has done more for blacks than the Democratic Party ever has. Not because the Republican's favor blacks over any other group, but becuase of their insistance on fair treatment, one way or another. While Democrates seek to divide & Conquer (White vs. Black; Rich vs. Poor;) The Republicans are only interested in doing what's best for the country, or at least more so than the Democrats.

quote:Originally posted by JCMan: Now as for the next battlecruiser only having 1 CC that you can use is gonna make cry......Well, he could always add an expansion that gives us access to other ships.. or you could just keep playing UC

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: LOL!! And that was two years of dodging the mortgage company. LOL!! Well with these new titles in the works, I think you'll be able to pay off the whole Mortgage this time.

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: A new reality show on TLC - Bosses of large companies a take step down to go and do what their employees do.What a Rip off, I used to have to do that when I worked for Home Depot, that was YEARS ago, I think they still do that too. All of us at the offices would have to go in to a store for 2 weeks and be a cashier, clean up the isles, stock the shelves. The stuff most of us used to do before we got promoted, plus at the time the company was hiring a lot of people from outside the company who had never worked in the stores.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: KB will probably be released for both Xbox and Xbox2. I don't have an Xbox2 dev kit yet (very few do). btw - the KB shots page has three shots of Cmdr April Gage. I forgot to update it earlier and only just noticed it. I saw the inner workings of the Battlecruiser.... that's pretty awsome, but I would like to know, are we going to be able to beam to other ships? Resnig: I say we beam over there and blow their Nuclear reactor, I mean we only have about 5 more min. of cloak time, and we're too badly damaged. John Dark: I don't know, our transporter is down to 70% operational status, you might get hurt, we may not be able to beam you back. Resnig: You have to send me over there, we don't have a choice, I'll try to steal a shuttle to get back, heck otherwise just clone me! John: FINE! Report to the transporter room!

quote:Originally posted by Phreddo: I guess now I understand the $20 pricetag. All the development costs were covered in all the previous games. Yeah he also got everyone that worked on all the new models from the Naval groups to the OC's to the shuttles to work for free for an entire year... plus all the programming for the new AI (you know how the Marines now follow your lead), he decided to throw that in as a freebie, he also called his Mortgage Co. and they told him to take a year off from his payments... same thing with his car, since they understood that all the costs were already covered.

This is BEEG News!! As for the next Battlecruiser game, hopefully you will be incorporating the inner workings of the ship in that game too... Heck make the minimum req. an Athlon64 Machine, we should all have one by then.

At least give her $87.00 worth of Gift Certificates, so it doesn't cost them as much.

Maybe he's putting up some Server's with the new RC8 Patch ... the suspense is killing me.

quote:Originally posted by Darkreaver1980: Its the Radeon 9200 but the weaker SE edition, the 9200 runs at 128 bits the SE only at 64 and i know that this card only support directX 8 WRONG! The 9000 Series supports DX 8.1, while the 9200 Series supports DX9.

quote:Originally posted by Nakaleen: One thing I was wondering. Do you only have to Prep them once? Or every time after they have been off duty.Every time they've been off duty, or have gone to Medibay and been treated. If you look in Tactical,->Crew,->Marines, Just before their assignment, you will see either Active, which simply means, "I'm Alive", Ready, Which means he's prepped, or Dead.

quote:Originally posted by Grizzle: quote:Originally posted by Darkling: The unique combination of chemicals that made up the ameoba's DNA was the right ONE out of a Billion, Billion combinations (20 Zero's) that those chemicals could have come together in. Odds that are WAY too far fetched to claim that it could have happend by chance. Considering there were millions upon millions of years for chemicals to interact and combine in various ways, it's not so hard to believe that sooner or later the right combination was hit. Wrong, It's like saying that if you get everyone in the world to flip a coin every minute of every hour of the day, eventually, they would all get heads. While we say that the odds are a Billion, Billion to 1, the truth is that when the odds are THAT high, it becomes what we call an IMPOSSIBILITY. It will NEVER happen. To a Mathematician, anything over a 100 Billion to 1 odds, is called a mathematical impossibility, but this isn't a hundred billion to 1, it's a Billion, Billion to 1, just for the combination and to top it off that it happened in a SOLVENT!? Not going to happen. Let's see what are the odds of my watch assembling itself.. Hmmm.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: I think, and I hope that he was talking about illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is hurting this country, immigration itself, LEGAL immigration helps this country.Well, there's a huge difference between Legal & Illegal Immigration, he didn't say illegal and I've met MANY people that want our borders closed off, period.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Wow Unbelievable. I used to sell software to the Pawn Shop industry and the rules and regulations that these mom & pop stores have is absolutely incredible, this Billion dollar company comes into this business and basically thumbs their noses at the law and no one does anything. If this happened in a Pawn shop they would be shut down for dealing in stolen property, plus have to pay a huge fine. I know, because I've seen it happen.

quote:Originally posted by Elric_Sloan: I think the immigration problem is really hurting this country.Well the Indians say you should go back to where you came from then. It makes me laugh when I see European decendants (I don't know you, but I know you are) complain about immigration, as if their families where always here. Let me clue you in, Immigration helps this country, it's one of the things that makes it stronger. Immigrants come here, work hard to make a better life for themselves, take on jobs that you will never take (such as take out your garbage, clean your office, and wipe your Grandma's behind in the nursing home) but somehow these people are a "problem". My parents came here from the Dominican Republic. After my father left my Mom, we ended up on Welfare for a few years, but eventually my Mom (after going to back to school) got a decent job, bought a couple of run down buildings, remodeled them and then that was it, we were well off. Her kids have continued the tradition of improvement and all 4 of my brothers and sisters have our own businesses, and between the 5 of us we employ 47 people. As a matter of fact, one of my Sisters was going to be personally honored by President Bush for her work in helping the redevelopement of Real Estate in Lawrence MA. and she's a Democrat! (Unfortunately the Gala was cancelled, because of 9/11). Americans seem to have this strange tradition of killing most of their kids (over a million abortions a year) and so if it wasn't for us Immigrants, the population here would slowly die out, then who would buy the homes, cars, furniture and take care of your elderly. Immigration isn't a problem, it needs to be expanded.

quote:Originally posted by Banquet: Fair enough, but being able to see something happen and being able to influence the outcome are two different things.Everything has a price. If you decide to leave a probe in an area that gives you a tactical advantage over the enemy, so there should be a price, and the price is that you are then responsible for that area. I only leave probes in area's where I capture stations, so if some bad boyz come into the area, I can have the stattion launch some ships to get them. Of course you will need 25K XP for this.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Chavik: Water's unbalanced geometry ÔÇö positive charges on one side, negative on the other ÔÇö also gives it a distinctively schizophrenic personality (although chemists, like psychiatrists, prefer the term bipolar). This makes it an excellent solvent. One side of a molecule grabs on to negative charges; the other side grabs the positive. This pulls most things apart, so water can dissolve almost anything. .... Why doesn't life just disintegrate altogether in water then? While water is one of the most strongly bipolar molecules, it is not the most reactive ÔÇö meaning it can make things fall apart (dissolve) without changing their composition (react). So the parts can be endlessly rearranged. .... This is one of the problems that I have with the whole "Theory on Orgins". If wanter is a solvent, which means that it breaks things apart, then how did the first living thing supposedly bring itself together in something that's supposed to make it come apart? Also, keep in mind that the first living thing (an amoeba) isn't as simple as once thought. The unique combination of chemicals that made up the ameoba's DNA was the right ONE out of a Billion, Billion combinations (20 Zero's) that those chemicals could have come together in. Odds that are WAY too far fetched to claim that it could have happend by chance.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Terrik Durlun: [QB] discovery of another world of amazing proportions (got BCMG for only $5)You did? Where? Or did you buy a used copy or something? I picked up an extra copy of BCM/G a few months ago for 5 bucks at either Gamestop or EB Games. (bought it for MP) The only reason it was so cheap was because it was used, the box was pretty chewed up and the CD had a few scratches on it, but the guy Guaranteed it would work and it did.

I captured Pixan a few days ago and it's status changed from Ter/RAI to Ter/Mil and became Green (friendly). After I took over another couple of bases, I looked at it and it was red, but it still shows up as Ter/Mil, I flew over to the area and bombarded it down to 400 when it let out an SOS so I docked with it. Traded some stuff and then came back out. As soon as I came back out, I got a message that said, docking clearace denied and Pixan started firing at me, though it now shows up Gray (disabled). Do I have to wait a certain amount of time before trying to retake a base that I captured previously, or do I just need to destroy that thing?