So, you're saying that while you are for increased universal (guaranteed) state/federal benefits in the US -- namely Free Healthcare and Free College Education -- you empathize with the point that too much hand-holding can "spoil your character".
Why? Even if you are taxed at 50-60% -- which, by the way, I NEVER advocated for the US since that would be insanely high and I'd personally move back to Europe if that ever happened -- you still get a higher net income if you work more. The correlation is still there. It's not like you don't get a more money if you work more -- you still do.
... which clearly a lot of people do (like the Survivor winner, who "forgot" to declare his prize, or the several CEOs that are on trial for tax evasion)
Having lived in The Netherlands, and knowing Austria's politics relatively well (one of my best friends is actually originally from Austria) I understand perfectly where you are coming from. But please realize that the US is still VERY far from the level of welfare of most of Europe. VERY far away. And I never, ever said that I'm for European levels of taxation. That would be insane.
There is a middle ground. We don't need to fall on the extremes -- and HH is the one advocating the extreme, not me (I'm a middle-ground kind of guy).
I actually think that we should keep the method of electing officials to office, but place term limits on everyone.
(1) House of Representatives: Instead of 2 year terms and getting elected forever and making a career out of it, we would change the term to a 4 year term and limit them to 2 terms. That way, nobody would serve more than 8 years in the House.
(2) Senate: Keep the 6 year term, but limit it to 2 terms. That way, nobody would serve in the Senate for more than 12 years.
Without having to raise millions of dollars and worry about their "job security," perhaps our elected officials will then do what is best for the people, instead of what is best for themselves.
That is something that you would not accept dealing with other issues. There is a difference between a Democracy and a tyranny of the majority.
Of course the weak, the stupid and the lazy will allways agree that it is "only fair" to tax the "rich", meaning milking the middle class and preventing them from ever becoming rich. The real rich pay a lot less than the middle class does.
In real life it does not work anyway. I do not know about statistics in other countries, but in Austria the shadow economy is not only growing, it is booming .
As a sidenote for those American conservatives that think Europe is doomed because of our economic system, you are only looking at the official numbers and our tax system distorts them.
3 Phds, one in Econ, and you don't understand why someone doesn't want to be a beast of burden? C'mon, Doc, you're just playing us! Fess up.
I wish I could make you understand how sacred your life and your work are. I can only imagine how you must have worked and slaved to get 3 Phds! Now, after all that, someone comes and takes the results of that work. They give your money to someone who didn't want to be bothered. At gunpoint and with the threat of jail, they take your life's work and give it to others. That doesn't strike you as evil?
Some of the others DO need help. Little kids, old people, the sick. I'm happy to help them. But not at gunpoint. How about putting a box on my paycheck where I could donate to the causes that I (and not someone else) choose? Maybe that's not done because they want to use my money for something I DON'T agree with?
I've always been told that plyometrics are an excellent for of not only toning muscle but increasing "burst" speed for any number of sports (soccer, football, tennis, etc.).
But I've found that most people (and I'm also talking about soccer programs and teams and such) don't really put emphasis on it. In fact most of the people I know tend to just do weights and speed training (treadmill or the like) and do very little if any plyometric exercises.
Now I know that many of the exercises are killer on the knees and ligaments around the knee joints, and that might be a reason not to do them all the time.
So I was wondering who out there does plyometrics, for what purpose, and to what extent are the exercises dangerous and/or useful?
While many of you celebrate the season of spring, the season of Passover, and the season of Easter, we celebrate each and every resurrection of love within you! We celebrate each and every bit of light that blossoms in your heart. We celebrate the magnificent acts of love that you think are so tiny and so insignificant each and every day. There is no such thing as a "small" act of love, dear ones. In our eyes each act of love is a glorious ray of sunshine penetrating even the darkest recesses of the human heart! In our eyes, every act of kindness is cause for celebration in the heavens! In our eyes, every time you choose to acknowledge the good within yourselves, we see and celebrate the unfolding expansion of your hearts.
Now is the perfect time to look at your life and say to yourselves,"What must die within me to give birth to the life I want to live?" Do you need to give up thoughts of lack in order to resurrect abundance? Do you want to give up statements of self-deprecation in order to resurrect love? Do you need to release the clutter in your house to bring new order and life to your life? Celebrate!
The snows must recede to give birth to the flowers. The dead branches in your yards must be trimmed to resurrect your plants. Decorations from the holidays have been tidied up and put away to make room for new celebrations. Why not take advantage of the energies that always come to you at this time of year and ride the waves of release, relief, and renewal?
What habits, which thoughts, what stuff, what situations, patterns, policies, etc. must you release in order to bring new life to your life. Ask yourself this, "If I were already living the life I want, what would no longer be a part of that life." Be honest with yourselves. And then prepare to die unto your "small" selves in even the smallest of ways in order to birth new life, new love, new opportunities, and new joys!
Sometimes as I channel the angel message for the week I feel distinct energies. As I channeled this one I felt like flowers wanted to push forth from my depths out into the light! It was indeed an energy of blossoming. It was beautiful.
This morning when I woke up, the angels asked me the same question they asked above. What will you allow to die today, Ann? The first thing that popped into my mind was, "Worrying about how I'm going to pack in everything I want to do today." So I let that minor worry die and proceeded to ignore my schedule, my to-do-list, my emails, etc. and to follow my heart. I cooked dinners for the remainder of the week while still half awake in my pajamas. It went so quickly! I got my doggie ready for the day a bit later
than usual. She loved sleeping in! I forgot that I wanted to participate in a teleconference and went to the gym to work out instead. It felt great!
The plumber came to fix a leaky faucet and told me I needed new parts for the leaky shower. Scratch the plans again! I was soon guided to a hardware store other than my usual one where the part I needed was in stock. Within fifteen minutes I had the wrench out and the plumber's tape and was fixing the remaining problem. Still I didn't feel like doing my newsletter, so instead I ate a great dinner on the patio, inhaling the intoxicating scent of fresh orange blossoms and enjoying the coolness of the night air. My dog was smiling. My belly was full. My senses were thrilled. And suddenly, the angels started talking and the newsletter was written with ease. There were more errands and tasks scattered throughout the day, and as I look back everything and more that I needed got done, all with grace and ease. Its only 8pm as I write this. I may still have time to enjoy a girly pleasure and paint my toes I am glad I let the worry and need for control "die" today. It made welcome room for God's love to flow gracefully through my life.
There are always thoughts, habits, repetitive patterns, etc., that can "die" in our lives to make room for better. There are things we must fix or get rid of. There are situations that once served us which no longer do. There are areas of resistance that we must give up in order to do what we truly love. There are complaints that must be released in order to create what we really want. Death of these no-longer useful patterns can be a good thing. It truly does make room for a new, more loving, and glorious life! Think about it. What will you allow to die today within you, so that you can resurrect more light in yoyour own life?
Have a blessed week & to those of you who celebrate these holidays, Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover! Can't resist the little Easter joke... Some Bunny Really Loves you!
Is there any way to find out what possible summer fun or issues will occur this year? My name says it all.I was curious on if it was possible to get any ideas of what to look forward to during the three months of summer where I wont be in school. I am up for a job interview and wondering if i will get it and if there is such thing as summer love for me. Can anyone help?
Ok so I did exactly what you told me to this morning and my computer did turn on. I was happy until after the windows loading screen went away because nothing ever loaded. A pattern of lines came across the screen then I heard some noise coming from my video card so I immediately turned it off. Could it possibly be that my 6800gt I jsut bought 2 months fried that quickly?
It would be unlikely that your video card would have stopped working after 2 months, but if there is sufficient dust in the fan (either the fan on the video card or on the CPU), that could be the problem.
EDIT: Try taking the video card out of your computer, and see if the computer will work using just the onboard video.
Alright I will go try that now, but one thing I did notice was the fan on my power supply wasn't moving at all.
EDIT: Ok I was jsut testing to see if my fan on my graphics card was working and I took out my ethernet cable and headphones from the back and my computer booted up normally to windows. But I am still worried that maybe something is wrong.
That is most likely your problem then; you are probably going to need to buy a new power supply unless your computer is still covered by some warranty.
Hmm alright thanks, but as far as you know everything else should be Ok at least from what I have told you? Again thanks for all the help and I will let you know of my successes if I have any.
Your computer will probably be able to start up at times with the old PSU (power supply unit) in it, but it will not be stable.
Again I am sorry for probably annoying you with my problems, but do you know of a decent power supply that isnt too costly? I know enough to be able to buy my own graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, hard drives, just never had to buy a power supply before so I am not sure of my choices. Sorry for asking but I am just trying to make good choices
I myself have never bought a power supply, but try looking at yours and write down some of the dimensions. I can hopefully help you from there.
Ok well I just checked out my PSU and it was an OKIA-420ATX. it was 14cm by 15cm and 8.5cm tall. Also the voltage was 115/230v, the current was 10A/5A, and frequency was 60/50Hz if the helps?
I've gota go run some errands, but I found one that may work: This PSU has the same voltage as yours (as do many others).
You may want to wait until someone with more experience reads this thread to see what type of PSU you need.
Ok thanks, yeah I was actually just looking at that one about 5 minutes ago, but I don't have the experience to know so yeah I will wait for someone
I'm not that guy with the experience, but I know a great site to check the ammount of wattage you need for a computer. Click on "start psu calculator", then enter all your specs, and click on find my wattage, it is a good place to start.
The one you are looking it seems good though. 430 watts, and $40 is a decent price, I bought one for $55 at best buy and it was only a 350 watt.
Given our forks' track record of using server hosting for password phising, how are we going to handle the issue of which projects get on the server list?
I've been trying to push for some sort of privacy certification, but that has been shot down as nonsense.
Bertram, I get the feeling you don't understand the essence of the change and the most important problems it is trying to solve. The point is really to separate development from any particular player community, which makes it imperative that development happens under a different name and that the base client has its own identity.
The client maintainer would keep dev.manaworld.org and the dev client up to date with manasource. From there we'd cherry-pick what we need for the next CR to testing. When testing is done we release our CR client, our CR server and our actual CR -> server.themanaworld.org.
At least this is how I took that scheme. There is the separation: manasource is developing a platform on which someone can build a game and TMW is building a game.
Crush wrote: The downloadable installers will also have a very small filesize because their only payload is the branding. This will be an additional incentive for the user to try them (when they see that it is downloading 50 additional megs from the net they already overcame the hesitation to download and start the installation and will be unlikely reconsider).
I don't know much about distribution of Linux software, but maybe a similar system could be utilized on most distros by having server-specific installer packages which have the mana client as a required dependency.
Crush, I think that's a very nice idea. And indeed, something similar would work on Linux. Then, all that would be required is for 'manaclient' to be a dependency of 'tmw', and the 'tmw' package would add nothing more than the branding and the shortcut.
Of course, I'd still prefer if it was also made clear that the Mana Client can be used with any server, so when simply launching the mana executable, it should pop up a list of default servers (which can be downloaded), to which you can add your own manually.
Ok, I didn't realize that it was about the organization of TMW after the split of TMW and manasource.org.
1. I guess the generic client server will be in need to share the dev content in order to unit test new features, regressions, etc...
2. If not 100%, 99% of people involved in Mana-Client Server will be included into The Mana World. It's just a matter of fact.
Bjorn, if you planned to move the code elsewhere in order to claim it, it's time to reveal your evil plan And, if yes, (we never know), sorry, I won't follow.
1. No, I think manasource will have their own test content out there just to show the things the platform can pull off.
This is not a takeover, this is to give platform developers more space and especially to give game developers more space. These are two different goals we have here and I really like this separation since it'll give us the freedom to make a game.
This in mind, TMW's interest in mind, I'd like to see the platform technology to be more of a library in style. I do not want any unnecessary features (as in unnecessary and potentially faulty/buggy or exploitable codebase) to bloat the client for our content releases. I'm a minimalist when it comes to engineering solutions.
The library-ish approach would enable us to maintain our own client and take features from the manasource platform as we need them, not as they are pushed onto us. The codebase of our own client would hence be really small and the brunt of the work would be done over on the manasource side of things. When this launches off, I'll be kind of seeing the TMW project as a client of the manasource project, which will obviously be a provider then.
Rotonen wrote: 1. No, I think manasource will have their own test content out there just to show the things the platform can pull off.
That's one idea, but still requires a lot of work for the other projects that don't care that much and just want to make a nice world for players. How about a modular client design where different servers can use different modules? Then you can sill use the same generic client, just only with the modules you want.
Not really. Mana 1.0 will be the new name of what was going to be TMW 0.1. Mana 2.0 will be a rewrite into QT.
Rotonen, Bertram, Jaxad, I'm not trying to fork the project. This is a separation between on one side client/server development and on the other side (production-) server content and player community. The Mana Client is not expected to be much different from the client we have now, apart from not having a built-in connection to one specific server or sharing its name with any specific player community. The suggestions to move to a library or plugin/component based approach are ultimately interesting, but are not at all necessary or relevant to these organizational changes.
Bertram, it's nice that you draw diagrams, but since I'm proposing a split between TMW as a game and player community and the client/server software that this community is based on, they are really only useful in the context of trying to draw the complete picture as far as the TMW project is concerned. I am personally not planning to contribute to TMW directly apart from contributing to the Mana client and server, and at that level TMW would be just one of the users. Hence, while the diagram is interesting, it is not the picture as seen from a manasource.org point of view, and I have no interest in modifying it, like Platyna suggested, since most of the diagram is outside of the scope of manasource.org.
I think you could compare the relationship between TMW and manasource.org to the relation between TMW and Tiled. While TMW has a lot of influence on the way Tiled develops, being one of the primary users, it remains a generic editor that is also used by many other people.
Bertram wrote: IIUW, the rewrite of tmw using QT will be done, like as a generic fork from TMW, or something?
(Btw, I'm not aware of what IIUC or IIUW mean.) About the Qt port, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it as part of this reorganization, since it really doesn't have anything to do with it. I mentioned it since several people are interested in doing this, so I know we will give it a try. But you should notice that 1.0 is planned to be released first, without Qt dependency. Whether a Qt based 2.0 will be a success will be a different story, and something we probably won't know until in about a year. Of course, we'll start this port in a branch, and the non-Qt version can be continued to be developed in parallel.
I wonder If this will really work since TMW is an open source project which depends on its community. Even if its community is full of ebnrs. Technically I like your movement, but we will see if it was useful in the future.
And Elven, our lovely master, found out about this while reading this thread - not very respectful, but I am german so I guess its okay
edit: after a long discussion on irc with thorbjorn I approve the splitting of the TMW project into an generic engine project and a TMW content project, thus making TMW into a lighweight content datapack for the new "2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine" project which will be hosted at manasource.org (yes thats the official name, and yes, the roleplaying part is redundant!)
Lets hope the ebnr people won't fork the new shiny "2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine" into "Aethyras awesome engine"!
But if we will encounter things like these our marketing guys could came over saying "hey noobs, what the hell are you doing, just use the main generic engine thingy, use the datapack for branding and if you need something, just request it over at '2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine / manasource.org' and don't create your own feces that will definately die!"
ElvenProgrammer wrote: So if I understood it correctly, all the developers are moving to manasource.org and we need to create a solid team to keep server.themanaworld.org up to date with development and correctly managed as a production server.
Can I take this as you stepping up a bit again in the project? This is great news since I was worried I'd have to take charge of the entire TMW project which would take my time away from content development oversight.
I really hope so, and I'm working toward it. At least I would like to take care of client administration.
If you still want to take care of content development, feel free to, since that's the biggest part, now that code development is not one of our projects.
I don't know what's the current status, but I guess, we will need some help in server administration. I've out of the scenes for so long, that I don't know who's responsible for what.
I'm about to own your soul with one statement. I was being coached by Internet Pokers at the time you idiot, so if you thought that play was shoddy you can go take it up with Internet Pokers and HU him 4 rollz. The reason I quit your table is because our session was ending and INTERNET POKERS and I went over some theory. Good job sounding like a jackass though.
Are you calling internet pokers a really crappy player? Is that why you dodge the **** out of him when he comes?
Edit: If you want, I will forward this to INTERNET POKERS and tell him a giant fish who just complains about run bad wants to donate a porsche to him.
so you call me a crappy player based on 50 hands that internet pokers played against you? keep crushing 10/20 then amigo lol.
well actually, it would be based on me playing you previously on ftp and cake. i suck, just fortunately a lot of other people suck too.
1.) I started Poker this year in January and didn't know two ****s about **** when it came to poker.
2.)I barely played at all during the summer (maybe 10k hands) and have 200k hands lifetime, most of which are 6-max and full ring. I didn't know about proper preflop hand ranges until two weeks ago. I just played based on feel.
3.) Anybody who has played me in the past should know I have improved significantly but I still suck and I understand that.
4.) BBV and LC are for brags, and I feel like bragging about my month because it was my best month by far, considering I played more hands in the past month than the past 7 months combined before then despite being at FR and 6-max for a ton of those hands during the 7 months prior.
5.) I have received numerous requests from coaching, ranging from NL50 regs to mods who are already established in the HU world, and I have told them all the same thing:
c.) Give me some time to study the game from very good players and if I feel like I have become a good player myself, I will coach them because I enjoy helping others (I coach NL25 and NL10 for real life friends who need money for tuition or are otherwise strapped for cash--for free obv.)
6.) I told INTERNET POKERS last night I still don't know two ****s about **** when it comes to poker. I told him to just break it down from the beginning because I have no fundamentals, having neither the experience nor the right thought process.
7.) **** off because I am not going to play you HU4rollz or something for some poker ego that I don't have. I don't post my graphs because I think I'm good; I post them because I am proud of how far I've come. Nobody is forcing you to look at them. Sickos like Aejones and FWF are going to have 100x sicker graphs but they don't post because it's standard for them. It is not standard for me to have 100k+ months, so I posted it as it is a novel experience.
if you can't see why id be annoyed with you sitting with me, winning a stack, dropping down to 3500v2500 and then leaving in 32 hands with no chat or warning or anything, then you're a ****ing idiot.
I would have coolered you regardless, and it was a standard sweat session that happens all the time. We played for ****ing 32 hands so quit your bitching. Coolers ****ing happen, and for some reason you can't get it through that walnut head of yours. If you want to play more hands against me while Internet Pokers is playing, we can schedule it and I'll just give him 100% action because I don't give a ****.
Edit: and LOL at bragging about my coach playing you. I didn't know who the **** you were until you posted this; I still don't give a **** though.
Edit2: Ok, Vinetou just made it clear to me why you are upset and said I should clarify. I had no intention of hit and running you. Whether you coolered me for 2k or I coolered you for 2k, I was leaving regardless. I sat down with you because you were the first person I saw and I wanted to get as many hands in with IP sweating, but I had no intention of hit and running. I would have left down 2k and felt the same way.
This isn't your grandpa's poker universe, coaching is a huge part of the game at this point, and a significant part of coaching is watching your students while they're playing and offering advice. While this does violate the principle of "one hand, one player", it's just the way of things at the moment and people should be aware that that's the way it is. While it's bad form to talk about this sort of stuff to a certain extent as people don't really like to acknowledge that it's happening, people need to accept that part of the deal of playing online is that you're never really sure exactly who you're playing against. We can get irritable about it until we're blue in the face, but nothing will change so it's probably best to save our energy for more important stuff.