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TOZ wrote:

The common wisdom around the barracks was "Don't vote, you'll get a boot in the ass either way. What size it is doesn't matter."

Shhh! Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!

What is the deal with voting in the military? When you are stateside, do they provide you with a polling place if you are on-base? I recall something about overseas military ballots being counted after others, or potentially not counted unless the election is close? Is that just some weird Florida law from 2000 or am I totally mistaken?

Members of the military are eligible for absentee ballots for their registered district, whether overseas or stateside. If you relocate your voter registration to your duty location, you can vote there as well, but I have never heard of what would essentially be a non-denominational polling location on a military base. Interesting idea, but I have no idea whether it would even be legal or not.

As far as I know, all ballots are counted as they arrive, but I would imagine that if the race isn't that close, the registrar doesn't look too hard at the numbers. Military members can request additional time or delivery considerations if overseas (faxing the ballot, scanning and sending a .PDF ballot, or additional time to mail it in if you're somewhere outside of typical mail channels).

I always advise military personnel to vote. After all, they're the ones getting put in harm's way by the politicos, so they should at least take an interest in the process.

Hope this helps,
C

Ah, understood. My objection (or suggestion) revolves around "Haxaman" - the internal "KS" sound isn't a part of Arabic or Persian phonetics. When "x" is subbing for "z" it works, but that isn't usually the sound related to it when it is internal to a word.

I like to babble about linguistics unless forcibly restrained, so I will limit myself to suggesting, "Haqqaman" if you want to keep the construction similar, or suggest another internal consonant. A gutteral letter represented by "kh" or "gh" would be linguistically appropriate, if you liked the look of names like "Fakhal" or "Barghou."

Excellent work. I recognize some of the regional names outside the Inner Sea region from various books, but are the others your own? I have one objection on linguistic grounds, but I'll reserve it until I understand a little better.

I was out at PT (physical training) when the first tower was hit. We'd suspended normal operations; the post was on complete lockdown almost immediately. We just hung around the dayrooms, watching the news.

Speculation was rampant. No one really knew anything right at first; it took a few hours for the reports to start making sense, for Al Qaeda to release a statement, for the pieces to fall into place. And the rest, as they say, was history.

Seven years, four long deployments, and innumerable short tours later, on this day, all I have is a toast: To Fallen Comrades.

Does this product contain a pre-Earthfall map of Thassilon? That's something I'd be eager to lay my hands on, because my players are already itching to confront Runelords in addition to Karzoug. They'll be in Xin-Shalast during the next session, and have made no secret of the fact that they only consider Karzoug the first challenge.

I would also be interested in maps, as I find myself in the same position as Tambryn, trying to run a game while in Iraq. Also, is it possible to get (or is there already) a higher-res version of the Golarion map? My players are trying to track down the capitols of Thassilon, using the guidelines from Pathfinder #1, and I'd like to point them in the direction of canon, if I can.