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Ison wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

Ison wrote:

I am a subscriber but I havent received any modules in what seems to be several monthes. I haven't received any modules since #42 Sanctum of the Serpent God.

Interesting...

Researching. More to come later.

Looking forward to the conclusion of your investigation.

I apologize for not having gotten back to you on this previously, but it turns out that this had further implications that needed to be explored in depth.

However... I have you sorted out now. It appears that there was a defunct item in your sidecart that was causing your subscriptions to be ignored whenever we went to ship a new subscription item.

I have fixed the bug, but now you have a choice. Since the last time we shipped you an AP book, 3 more have been released. I have put these into your sidecart. Now, if we do nothing more, then the next time a new AP book comes out (#46 in two weeks), we will ship you all four books at once. This will be approximately $60 or so. If you don't want to have them all come at once, and since this resulted from a bug within our system, I will be more than happy to work with you to make it less of an all-at-once burden if you prefer. Another option is that you can, whenever you want, go to your My Account page and hit the "Ship As Soon As Possible" button in the Sidecart area and have the three waiting books ship out right away.

I apologize for the mix up, and please let me know how you would like to proceed.

Thanks,
cos

All four at once is fine.

Ison wrote:

I am a subscriber but I havent received any modules in what seems to be several monthes. I haven't received any modules since #42 Sanctum of the Serpent God.

Interesting...

Researching. More to come later.

Looking forward to the conclusion of your investigation.

I am a subscriber but I havent received any modules in what seems to be several monthes. I haven't received any modules since #42 Sanctum of the Serpent God.

Please send me two bars with my next subscription shipment :)

High quailty leather bound hardbacks ftw!!!

Bitter Thorn wrote:

I'm not sure how the poor are being demonized. I think I need some help understanding what you're saying here.

I certainly see the rich being demonized for "not paying their fair share" which I find absurd.

Really? It seems central to neoconservative ideology. Poor people are poor because they don't want to work. They're stupid/lazy/uneducated, etc. It's all over the place. On the other hand, if you mean in this thread, you're right -- my lament was much more general, which is why no one is quoted in it. :)

As for the rich paying/not paying "their share"...we'll, you're probably starting from an assumption with which I disagree -- that the rich are rich because they largely earned their wealth. But that's a whole other thread.

The central conservative ideology is that the poor people are poor because the government has punished honest work ethic and entrepreneurship. Rewarded behavior that is unbecoming of a civilized people.

Great question I have often wondered that myself :)

Why are there trees growing on that dragon?

It might be a good idea to listen to the Fear the Boot episode on Creating a Group Template. By starting with a group template everyone can agree on what the group is about.

sounds like fun! let em have at it and may the best man win!

I WANT HARD COVER!!!!!

Ison wrote:

It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either.

Did you know that, throughout his entire presidency, not only did Ronald Reagan have no idea what his wife's name was, but that he couldn't even identify her in a police lineup, and no one on his staff could, either?

Actually, that's not true. But he at one time he hesitated in saying her name, and apparently it's OK to extrapolate that as needed to make some kind of point? Obviously, you're going to take anything at all as "evidence" backing up your preconceived notion, but don't expect the rest of the world to accept it merely because you say so.

I can heap enough criticism on the guy rooted in his actual stances on actual issues that I don't need to go looking for more where they don't really exist.

Here is some evidence for you.

Despite being the editor of the Harvard Law Review and a former law professor, he doesn't know what "decriminalization" means (hint the "de" in front of criminalization means what it sounds like it would mean). See http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/17/...

He didn't know his nuclear energy bill didn't pass. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/pol...

He didn't know that the chair of his New Hampshire campaign was a lobbyist. http://www.boston.com/news/local/politic...

Despite knowing Tony Rezko for almost 20 years, he had no idea he was a slum lord and influence peddler. And he can't say for sure how much money Rezko raised for him. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...

Despite going to Pastor Wright's church for 20 years, he had no idea before last year that he had said so many inflammatory things. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...

He didn't always know that pushing the green button was a yes and not a no vote. See http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-...

He didn't know he had once advocated for single payer healthcare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAkIidChxic

He didn't know that his economic advisor had met with the Canadians and discussed NAFTA. See http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030...

He didn't know he voted for Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill. See www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3304....

He didn't know what answers his campaign manager provided to questions on issues such as guns used to secure an important endorsement during his 1996 run. See http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1...

That's a lot of things for such a smart man not to know.

Ison wrote:

I dunno about his prompt but I know Obama is probably the least intelligent president USA has ever had. He doesnt even know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

So the definition of intelligence is "an inverse proportion to how often one mixes up two minor state holidays in a verbal slip?" Damn. And all along I'd been led to believe that it involved, you know, things like mental processing ability, and stuff like that. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.

By the way, I'm the most important person ever to post on Paizo. I'm defining "important" as "uses an avatar that incorporates the color pink somewhere, and has some reference to alcohol and/or animal parts." Just so we're clear on that as well.

It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either. Hell they wrote him a big Veterans Days speech and let him give it at a War Memorial Service on Memorial Day and even while giving the speech he nor his staff still couldnt figure it out.

On Feb 1 this year he gave a speech and quoted the Declaration of Independence and said it was the Constitution and wasn't he suppose to be a professor of Constitutional Law?

I could write a series of books on stuff the average 5th grade student knows that Obama doesnt have clue about.

Whether you like Obama or not, attacking his intellect is an extremely poor tactic.

Good luck with that.

I dunno about his prompt but I know Obama is probably the least intelligent president USA has ever had. He doesnt even know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

Epic Beard Man wrote:

More beer.

Who the hell offered more beer? Dang it! I should have asked for sources.

The Beer party offers more beer

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/offTopic/teaAndCoffePartiesB othSuXxOrs

Er ill read up on rules and mebbe by the next time i might know how to plays :)

It is still a mystery to me why people don't seem to learn. You have an exit strategy BEFORE you start a war. Otherwise, you get dragged into a s%#*ty conflict that gets uglier by the day, losses accumulate, and every change makes the situation worse. It's a necessity if you're invaded, of course, but these latter american wars were hardly about that.

Now, everyone keeps saying that if you give up in Afghanistan, the country will become a terrorist nest, losing you everything. If you give up in Iraq, full-scale civil war will ensue.

If you're the head honcho in the world politics, it's in your own interest not to take any provocation as a signal for war. The US has gained absolutely nothing from invading either Afghanistan or Iraq. It's possible that various private interests have, though. Whee.

And now, these wars have ruined the american economy. You're losing supreme power. All for rushing into war without exit strategies.

No terrorist could have done this so effectively to the US.

Wars havent ruined the American economy goverment meddleing in the private market has ruined the economy. As far as exit strategys go your not suppose to leave until you win so I suppose the invasion strategy is what's really important once you have won the only exit strat you need is load up all yer stuff and roll out.

Zombieneighbours wrote:

What happens if there is strong vain of anti-semitic thought and a citizen group comprising of the majority of consumers say they will boycott any service that either employs or serves jews? Is that okay?

Under such conditions, how do market forces protect the towns only jewish family?

Realistically, when the majority decide to discriminate, there is nothing the market can do to stop it. But likewise, if the majority wants to discriminate, there is nothing the government will do to stop it either. Laws are only as good as enforcement and if the majority is in control and filled with hate, enforcement of the Law will reflect that. Besides which, who is to force someone to spend their money where they don't want to? Do you want laws telling you where you have to shop? Thankfully, our own civil right laws have been successful, because, even in the south, the majority does not want to discriminate.

But this was William's point: if congress has simply removed the segregationist laws, market forces would have forced businesses to rectify the situation on their own over time because the majority did not want discrimination and businesses which served all would have flourished while businesses that discriminated would have had their market share continually shrink in most areas.

Yeah I believe the vast majority of Americans are not racist and do not want discrimination. I think that government involvement has actually slowed down progress on this front. Seems like politicians try to group people together and pit them against each other so that they can say Im on your side and try to get their votes. Instead of all citizens of the United States being called Americans we are called Native Americans and African Americans or Irish Americans.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.
– Theodore Roosevelt, letter to the American Defense Society (1919)

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
– Theodore Roosevelt

I have always thought the success of our constitution is due to the fact it is a living document. It can change. Change is inevitable. If you can not change, you will be left behind, or worse.

So I am not sure the Constitution should be the end all, be all. Yes, it is an extremely important foundation and should not be discarded thoughtlessly. At the same time, I do not think it is sacrilege to question whether it, or parts, have become outdated or even wrong.

Obviously, there will be others who do not want change and I believe I understand where they are coming from. Still, the only thing that remains constant is change.

Oops. I guess I did not really answer the question.

My kind of thought process tells me that as far as the consitution goes as it was written by our founding fathers is timeless. I think that everything that can change or will change has already changed numerous times over and over threw out recorded history and that any changes now are only repeated changes that sombody else sometime else has already tried with failure or success. And that the wisdom learned from the past when applied by our founding fathers resulted in a document that really never becomes outdated. How can individual freedoms liberties and rights become outdated unless you believe that people shouldnt be allowed to do the things that constitution guarentees? Freedom and liberty never become outdated unless you are trying to control people against their will....

The Russians where just as evil as the Nazis and American Generals did everything in their power to persuade the president to allow them to invade Russia after Germany was defeated.Befor the war started Russia took by force all the crops grown in the Ukrain and sold it on the market forceing 10 million Ukrainians to starve to death in less than 2 years. The Russians actually thought they where allied with Germany until they where invaded. Once Germany was in full retreat the Russians where right behind them not necessairly to push them back to Germany but to to make a massive land grab Russia considered all the land that they had liberated from the Germans was now theirs. America had to threaten Russia with invasion befor they would return it to their rightful owners.

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:

bugleyman wrote:

This just in: Seven in ten U.S. adults support killing the other three and taking their stuff (yes, that is my tongue-in-cheek way of asking why public opinion matters). ;-)

YEAH!!! Who cares what that stoopid public thinks! It's not like they can vote or anything....

*sigh*

Sure they can vote. But they can't vote to strip their fellow citizens of their rights, which is what is what opponents of the Arizona law contend is the issue. I don't think I've ever seen a credible argument in support of government by simple majority. Have you?

Illegal immigrants are not our fellow citizens.

NEW YORK, April 29 (UPI) -- Seven in 10 U.S. adults support arresting people who can't prove they're in the United States legally, a poll about Arizona's new immigration law indicated.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/04/29/Poll-Most-support-Arizona-immigra tion-law/UPI-55921272544207/

I beleive every state has the right to protect itself and its citizens from being invaded by foreigners who are in the country and the state illegaly.

At the same time I am against haveing to carry around papers that prove you are an American Citizen so that everytime you pass by a police officer as you walk down the street you have to present your identification to prove that are legal.

I think there is a better way to deter illegal immigrants from entering and ways to get them to leave on their own.

Bah SCREENSHOT or it didnt happen!

Ive neve even seen a female at the local comicbook store where all the local gamers hang out much less even played in a group that a female was apart of.

A much better way - cut government spending in half. Eliminate everything that isn't vital to our country. For instance, subsidies for ethanol and money for public radio/television.

+1

Ison wrote:

And after all the aid we give the same countries that we give to don't appreciate what we do for them and still hate us for the most part.

You hang around with the wrong foreigners then. The foreigners I hang out with like us, for the most part (although the Brits and Canadians both throw up their hands and walk away when told how 'awful' their health care is, since they know better).

I find, that if you treat them like anyone else, and don't constantly bring up how 'awful' their countries are and how 'they owe us' for crap that happened before any of us were born, they do a really convincing imitation of being human beings, like us.

If you are hanging out with Canadians and British thats why. Canada is the best neighbor a country could hope to have.I have poked fun at Canadians in the past but after I look at all the other countries that we could have had to share a continent with Im so happy and proud to be a neighbor to such a great and friendly people. The British have been very strong supporters of American intrest as well. Im not aware of the U.S. sending either of them foreign aid unless there is some kind of disaster. I suppose both of these countries are major contributers to foreign aid. I wonder how they feel about the amount and use of the aid they donate.

So what day is national cleavage day so I can mark it on my calander?

Of the $122.8 billion of foreign aid provided by Americans in 2005 (the most current data available), $95.5 billion, or 79 percent, came from private foundations, corporations, voluntary organizations, universities, religious organizations and individuals, says the annual Index of Global Philanthropy.

Read more: http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/May/20070524165115zjsredna0 .2997553.html#ixzz0jIhiDxf7

Even though the American government may budget spend less that 1% of the budget our that still a greater amount of money than any other country donates. Besides that the american people donate nearly 4 times the amount the government does. I heard a news report last summer saying that U.S. is responsable the 80% of the worlds foreign aid. That means we give 400% more than all the rest of the world combined.

And after all the aid we give the same countries that we give to dont appreciate what we do for them and still hate us for the most part. Would make me very happy if the American government budgeted 0% for foreign aid for all the good it does.

Bruno Kristensen wrote:

Wolfthulhu wrote:

The US has given more aid to foreign countries than any other nation in the world. In the name of humanity, with nothing to gain at all except the good will of the people (more often what we receive is scorn, once the aid is given).

How large a portion of your gross national product goes to foreign aid? Last time I checked, US wasn't even in the top-25 when considering GNP.

Less than 1% of the US budget goes to foreign aid. We are in last place in the "first world" in terms of giving. European nations put our aid to shame. The idea that a huge % of our money goes to foreign aid is long-flogged myth. Sorry, dems da facts.

USA TODAY says Americans donate $300 billion anually to charity. Forbes.com says.The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies compiled a ranking of private philanthropy in 36 countries from 1995 to 2002. Based on giving alone, the U.S. comes first, giving 1.85% of GDP, followed by Israel at 1.34% and Canada at 1.17%. But based on volunteerism alone, the Netherlands comes first, followed by Sweden and then the U.S.

But I believe America is exceptional for a host of other reasons than our charity.

USA TODAY says Americans donate $300 billion anually to charity. Forbes.com says.The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies compiled a ranking of private philanthropy in 36 countries from 1995 to 2002. Based on giving alone, the U.S. comes first, giving 1.85% of GDP, followed by Israel at 1.34% and Canada at 1.17%. But based on volunteerism alone, the Netherlands comes first, followed by Sweden and then the U.S.

But I believe America is exceptional for a host of other reasons than our charity.

We need to get us a platform established. Any ideas?

starts to brew up a nice chocolate stout

Sounds intresting... Ill try any stout once!

the Stick wrote:

Your beer party is passe and does not appeal to the key demographic - gamers. Thus, I now found the Mt. Dew party! It's extreme!!!

The old timey Mountain Dew Party of Appalachia does not endorse this new-fangled, neo-Dew party.

If yer Dew can't take the paint of a model T, if the revenuers ain't gunnin fer yer still, it ain't no dang gum Mountain Dew.

+1 Im actually in the Town of Appalachia as I post this. Yeah when I hear Mountain Dew Im thinking of moonshine. The original Mountain Dew.

Ison wrote:

BrewMaster Aberzombie wrote:

goes shopping for some East Kent Goldings hops and crystal malt

What'cha brewing there Aberzombie? Whats crystal malt?

Crystal Meth disolved in warm milk?*

*remember, drugs are bad, m'kay.

That makes sense! Crystal Malt it is!

goes shopping for some East Kent Goldings hops and crystal malt

What'cha brewing there Aberzombie? Whats crystal malt?

You need a point.

TRY "COFFEE AND TEA CAUSE CANCER! JOIN THE BEER PARTY AND TAKE A STAND AGAINST CARCOGENIC POLITICS!"

As founder of the BEER PARTY I do hereby promote yellowdingo to position of official BEER PARTY SURGEON GENERAL because he is right coffee and tea cause cancer and just goes to prove that GOD intended us to all drink beer.

I heard there was a job opening?

Yay Beer wenches!!! Simulacum and JollyRoger! You are both hired.

Still searching for an official beer wench. Perhaps I can tempt one with free beer?

I drink beer and I vote!

Sign me up.

Excellent Mulban welcome to the BEER PARTY! Get your mug out and fill it up at the keg.

As founder of the BEER PARTY I promote Aberzombie to the position of Chiefe Brewer

The Intravenously Fed 151 party laughs at your limp wristed displays of political strength. A slurred sound meant to be heard as laughing anyway.

Is that similar to Bacardi 151?

This just in. Now takeing applications for beer wenches!!!

As the founder of the beer party I promote both of you to co-founders and hereby decree that we will follow the BIG TENT philosophy suggested by Charlie Bell

But we here at the BEER PARTY will crush the other upstart movements under the heel of our steel-toe work boots and spit tobacco in their eyes as they grovel for mercy. Unless they present peace offerings of high quality brew in large quanities to us, juicy cuts of fresh beef cooked over open fires will be accepted too.

And there's a coffee party?

I would also like to add Dale Earnhardt Sr. to that list

Yeah I just finished reading a thread about the new coffee party movement on a diffrent board. Its a suppose to be a group founded by a liberal mindset of people to be the counter of the tea party people.

In light of the current movement amongst Americans to join grassroots politcal movements. I have come to the conclusion that both tea and coffee are pitiful weak excuses of beverages and underserving of my respect. These choices obviously reflect the weakness of those who have joined them. But for REAL MEN who eat meat and like their furniture made from leather. Enjoy driving vehicles with 350 hp or more I submit to you the manly choice of political affiliations one that such American heros like George Washington, Stonewall Jackson, Davey Crockett, or John Wayne would be proud to join. I present to you the BEER PARTY! As founder of the BEER PARTY movement I encourage all of you with great testicular fortitude to join my cause and voice your support here.

Im wishing for an eyecandy filled world

I wished there was eye candy where I work

James Jacobs wrote:

Does that same attitude hold towards the Star Wars RPG license? I'm just curious if that's one of the few possible exceptions...

Absolutely. As A Man In Black mentions, we DID have a Star Wars magazine license for a while, and when Lucasfilm took that license back in house (to control it more tightly, I believe, at about the point that one of the prequels were coming out), things got pretty scary and rough at Paizo for a bit... possibly on par with when WotC decided not to renew the D&D magazine licenses. It was not a happy time at Paizo in either case.

While working on Star Wars stuff and D&D stuff WAS very fun and exciting and rewarding, it was also stressful... especially when those licenses ended. I'm relatively sure no one here wants to set us up for a "threepeat" by getting deeply involved with licensed properties again.

Im really happy you guys have been able to overcome these obstacles and succeed. I love your products and love the community you have put together here. To hell with those other companies and their licenses Im PAIZO 4 LIFE!!