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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a novel. Semi-autobiographical, but still a novel. Hell's Angels is classified as a non-fiction novel.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a goblin in the depths of an ether binge.

Nothing more inflammable, either.

Krensky wrote:

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I've made huge maps (like 4 x 5 sheets of ledger paper big) out of pngs extracted from APs.

What exactly are you doing?

I loaded the map into map align set my grid size and saved it with the grid anything up to a grid size of 150 pixels works anything bigger causes and exception. So I took the 150 pixels loaded it into PosteRazor and tried to double the dimensions there and crashed it.

That's possibly a memory issue, does your map already have a grid? Have you tried using Photoshope or GIMP to add it?

Curry goat, rice and peas, orange spiced carrots, and a tossed salad.

Not mutually exclusive...

I don't know... I've heard some true horror stories about some tables...

* Notices Anklebiter and cowers in fear while trying not to laugh.

Krensky wrote:

It's amazing how you have confused a comma for a a period and then ignored the entire rest of the sentence.

Your clarification compared her to Trump with bad branding. Trump is actively courting white supremacists. If he doesn't qualify as part of the crazy right, I don't know what does.

A self aggrandizing narcissist who panders to the lowest common denominator of politiphobe is a self aggrandizing narcissist who panders to the lowest common denominator of politiphobe regardless of what sort of flavoring their populism has.

It's amazing how you have confused a comma for a a period and then ignored the entire rest of the sentence.

Krensky wrote:

I did no such thing.

You compared Jill Stein to Trump in terms of danger. The fact that you think these are remotely close is staggering.

That isn't what I said at all.

Krensky wrote:

Your getting awful defensive there Jeff...

I just keep hoping that one time when someone talks about the scary Left, they'll actually have something.

The scary right is far more powerful and better positioned, but that doesn't make the Looney left happy go lucky hippies frolicking in the sun with fluffy bunnies.

I did no such thing.

Krensky wrote:

Oh, some are just as dangerous and scary, they just don't look like it in comparison.

Think of Father Ted. Ted and Dougal are both crazy, but put them in the same room as Jack they seem perfectly normal.

DRINK!!

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Your getting awful defensive there Jeff...

Jill Stein, well, that's not really fair, she's more a left-wing flavored version of Trump with worse branding.

Proponents of Critical X Theory.

The current crop of students whining that their teacher made them read something that upset them because they should have to think or even be made aware of alternate views.

Anyone who says that we should defund the military.

Anklebiter (kidding!)

Etc.

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I've made huge maps (like 4 x 5 sheets of ledger paper big) out of pngs extracted from APs.

What exactly are you doing?

Oh, some are just as dangerous and scary, they just don't look like it in comparison.

Think of Father Ted. Ted and Dougal are both crazy, but put them in the same room as Jack they seem perfectly normal.

Yes there is, but the loony right and altright are so b$#%@+@ the left wing equivalents by and large seem to be merely eccentric or hopelessly idealistic and naive.

PosteRazor

Thanks for the info Krensky. If I get back into Destiny I'll have to check that website.

I'll have to check out FFXIV on the PS4 possibly. Right now my time is chewed up pretty good between work, house maintenance, and side projects for Pathfinder homebrew stuff.

Well the new expansion for Destiny is coming out next month, kicking off year three so that's a good time to consider gettingt back in the swing.

I forgot DC Universe Online is also on PS4.

While Bungie recently improved the LFG part of their site, most groups get formed via Planet Destiny's LFG site or the the100.io.

Also, FFXIV plays quite well on a PS4.

Krensky wrote:

Also, it's not like Bill and Hillary are taking money out of the Foundation.

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The Daily Kos“It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group once run by leading progressive Democrat and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout. …

The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. …"

More here:Between 2009 and 2012, the Clinton Foundation raised over $500 million dollars according to a review of IRS documents by The Federalist (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008). A measly 15 percent of that, or $75 million, went towards programmatic grants. More than $25 million went to fund travel expenses. Nearly $110 million went toward employee salaries and benefits. And a whopping $290 million during that period — nearly 60 percent of all money raised — was classified merely as “other expenses.”

Clinton Derangement Syndrome is a horrible condition.

And he wasn't retrieving it for academic reasons, he was selling it to Marcus.

I'm also thinking back to Karl Rove's reaction to losing Ohio in 2012. Either he'd been fooled, which I don't believe, or there was something that was supposed to happen that didn't.

I seem to recall claims by Anonymous that they interfered with the command and control of a system to fudge the numbers being transmitted from the machines to the Department of State.

And it seems Tiny Donnie may well have broken the law by having his campaign purchase over $55,000 worth if his book from Barnes & Nobel's (because buying them from the publisher directly, which is more the norm doesn't count for the NYT Best Seller list). If he received royalties for those copies he's broken the law.

Potroast with veggies and mashed potatoes.

Also, it's not like Bill and Hillary are taking money out of the Foundation.

Let's be honest with ourselves folks, those arms deals with Saudi Arabia were going to happen no matter who was involved. The Kingdom may have believed donating to the Foundation would help, because that's how things work in kleptocraies, but that doesn't mean it had any impact on the sales or that it benefited the Clintons.

Its funny because more than half of anime seems to make its characters look noneastern

That's a common misconception by people in the West. In Japan the characters are usually seen as Eastern unless they have a Western name.

Or the People's Republic in David Weber's Honor Harrington series that is a combination of France and America, and so on.

Point of order, that's the Second Republic of Haven. Based on the comments of Theisman and Pritchard the First Replublic was probably similar. The People's Republic of Haven is more People's Republic of China with a little North Korea until the Revolution and then it's a pastiche of the First French Republic.

Mystic_Snowfang wrote:

Well there is, as stated, Andoran. It's a true republic.

Andoran is rapidly becoming a republic in name only,as the old families are recreating an ogliarchal society. That's the problem with republics, as it happened and Greece and Rome, they're fragile constucts at best.

Citation?

Because that doesn't match with anything I've read. Certainly the old families want that and the Lumber Consortium is getting away with murder due to pragmatic naval concerns, but those are more conflicts for PCs to overcome than the Republic disintegrating.

I'm a few pages out of date here. Flame me if you wish.

Given Trumps's compassion and subtlety, I just assumed that "extreme vetting" means picking out someone who looks like a terrorist and waterboarding him until he admits that he is a terrorist.

Well, I think that's what everyone thinks that means.

I liked the more Adam West delivery. It's not better than Patrick Warburton, just different and entertaining.

I think someone is massively overstating the concern or control most authors have over layout too.

Grilled cheese with Campbell's condensed tomato soup (made with milk) chedder Goldfish, and orange iced tea.

Here's something for all you multiparty people to chew on.

To be elected President you need to win an absolute majority of electoral votes. Not the most vote (a simple majority) but an absolute one. That's where the 270 votes comes from.

If no one gets 270 electoral votes the House gets to pick from the three highest scoring candidates.

So if you got your wish of lots of parties able to pull meaningful electoral results you'd actually have a pretty good shot at seeing less democracy then we see now.

I, sadly have.

They're scary 'people'.

Kryzbyn, Edmund Burke famously said that working people shouldn't be able to vote, supporting it with scripture.

Conservatism has never been about what you said you believe. Sorry.

Guy Humual wrote:

Maybe she's so good that she's able to make folks like Alex Jones and Glen Beck seem crazy so people like us chalk up their accusations as crazy conspiracy theories. Bet you never considered that.

Edit: or she leaks the clues to her nefarious deeds to them first so the source of the conspiracy is tainted. Dun dun duuuuuun

Standard Illuminati practice: Leak the truth to the supermarket tabloids. Once something's been printed there, no one will believe it.

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I'm hopeful to eventually figure out what all his b@$@~+%* acronyms stand for.

SAP stands for Special Access Program. It refers, in this context, to information not only classified as Top Secret, but that is also related to a project or program with special rules regarding who can access it beyond just having a TS clearance and a need to know.

Both of you compleyely missed the point.

Well, it's not like it hadn't been well reported and documented that the Olympic Village is pretty much a nonstop sex party anyway, so I'm unclear what the point was.

Trump's attack dog thinks that 9/11 wasn't a thing.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

It's always sad to see the first signs of senile dementia showing themselves.

Technically Mistborn Era 2 is supposed to be more 1910's. That said, you're understating the scope.

Elantris, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archives, White Sand, Mistborn, and a handful of stand alone short fiction are all the same series.

Sanderson's said there's about 36 books in the Cosmere series, but he's already had to add a three books to Mistborn (the Era 2 stuff, the second trilogy was supposed to be the 21st century like urban fantasy) so I expect that to balloon up past forty.

Has Gilbert been forgiven for the rant that got him fired from Aflac yet?

He was fired less because people were angry with him over some black humor jokes following the 2011 Japanese Tsunami and more because Aflac does the vast majority of it's business in Japan.

Um... Well, I'm fairly sure that there already are 'tests' along those line in the immigration process. Hint, oh tiny handed one, they're called affirmations, not tests.

If someone's going to lie on the existing affirmations they lie on the new ones as well.

On a tangential note, am I the only one who thinks that candidates for federal office should have to pass the INS's Naturalization Civics Test? I'd include some sort of civil service exam, but apparently that was done away with without out fanfare.

Obviously it would suck if all options turned out to be equal, just different flavor over the same mechanics, robbing the players of any meaningful choice, and making all cultures bland and same-y, but there should be a sort of middle ground where things could be different, but end up competitive, and no one armor or weapon option is just always better-er than every other option.

That's why I play Fantasy Craft.

You could come close by using class based defense and armor as DR, but what really makes it work is some changes to the math, design philosophy, and combat system.

As an exmple, one of my current games is running through Serpent's Skull with most people wearing leather or normal clothes and doing quite well and with two unarmed fighters (built completely differently) a burgeler with a mace, an archer, a fencer, a spear and shield mounted warrior, a mage with a sword (not a fighter mage type, just a wizard who can use a sword), and sword and dagger fighter. The mage casts spells and makes threatening gesturesgestures the most part, but he can still be effective with a sword and the archer is pretty handy with a falcata.

Although, to be honest, I think the archer's war dog has the highest kill count.

As pointed out earlier, Ms Clinton is not paid a lot for her speeches, she's paid less than market rate.

On the literary side Steven Brust's Dragaera series has the Empire becoming the Republic when house Tekla (the peasants) ascends to the top of the Cycle.

There's also strong indication that the objectively 'correct' form of government in his universe is a left leaning social democracy, but Dragaera isn't ready to go back to that (the world is somewhat old school in that it's fantasy on top of science fiction).

Which particular option? I need to replace my just out of school paste board bookshelves with grown-up bookshelves in the next few years.

So you want to go from cheap particle board to expensive particle board?

The Get Down was entertaining and compelling, and I'm not a real fan of either disco or hip hop.