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Shall our new Captiol be named N.Y.E. D.C.
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37.50% |
| Nay |
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62.50% |
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32 voters |
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Master Zen
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of naughty
Jan 2003
time: 23:33
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First of all, I think we should have debated this a bit more before coming up with a vote, BF had a good idea in starting this poll but I feel we should consider other possibilites before finally voting on the two or three options which most people seem to like, and if "N.Y.E.D.C." wins, then we keep it.
That said, I fully agree that the capitol's name should be representative of our team as a whole. That means from both the member standpoint as well as the national one. Does nye deserve a city? Hell yes, and a very big one too. But let's be creative for a second and think of more inclusive names for this, the one city, the only city, which shall bind our fate... err, nevermind.
@ Arnelos
Yes, many cities have been named after real life cities, CGN of course is the best example but they have been pretty much handed out much in the same manner as we have assigned some of our cities to some posters. Naming our capital "D.C" is obviously pointing to one particular nationality specifically which is no better than naming that city after someone.
And also, given that nye is Canadian, I find it rather odd that "D.C" be added to a city named in his honor.
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wervdon
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I'm against it, but not strongly so.
I personally feel that we should make a strong effort to find a name that no one on the team disagrees with. Barring that being possible, we should at least try to make as many people as possible happy.
I am definately ok with naming a city after NYE though, I just don't want to see it create devisions no matter which city it is.
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Arnelos
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of the Free World
Sep 2002
time: 00:33
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Originally posted by Master Zen
last time I checked, I had no italian blood in me  |
Didn't the Italians try that themselves with extremely poor success in the 1930s?
On a more lighthearted (though informational note), everyone alive on the planet today is likely decended from figures like Julius Caesar, Hamurabi, Aristotle, and/or any number of ancient kings, emperors, thinkers, generals, and artists around the world because the survival of their lineage following their deaths, the sheer number of generations since their lifetimes, and the sheer amount of inter-mingling of genetic material between populations across the planet over time makes it almost impossible that someone WOULDN'T be related to such figures if their bloodline survived at all. Obviously people with the majority of their bloodlines leading back to the same region of the planet as such a figure would likely have MORE ancestors related to the figure, but every single person the planet has at least a few.
I honestly don't remember from when I studied it how recently (historically) it is that the probabilities change such that you have a low rather than high liklihood of being related to any figure born at a certain date in history. Off the top of my head (trying to remember that stuff), I'd probably guess about 1000 A.D.
Afterall, over enough generations, it only takes a few children conceived by mixed parents for nearly an entire population to eventually share at least one bloodline to a family from a completely different part of the planet despite the loss of any outward appearance that there ever were children born to parents of vastly different lineage. The fact that such things have been left delibrately undocumented or obscured in records throughout history makes it all but impossible to determine by tracking written records.
Most people certainly share the BULK of their bloodlines with one (or a few) identifiable ethnic group(s), but everyone almost certainly has a few stray bloodlines here, a few there, a few they probably don't even know about that tie to completely different groups they hardly bear any resemblance to and would never suspect they are decsended from as closely as they are.
So, in reality, who knows.
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:33
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Originally posted by BigFree
I still like N.Y.E. D.C.
But, what about Zion? This is a computer game after all. |
And you thought my idea of naming it after markos was bad! Hahaha
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notyoueither
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of naught
Aug 2001
time: 22:33
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quote:
Originally posted by Arnelos
Didn't the Italians try that themselves with extremely poor success in the 1930s?
On a more lighthearted (though informational note), everyone alive on the planet today is likely decended from figures like Julius Caesar, Hamurabi, Aristotle, and/or any number of ancient kings, emperors, thinkers, generals, and artists around the world because the survival of their lineage following their deaths, the sheer number of generations since their lifetimes, and the sheer amount of inter-mingling of genetic material between populations across the planet over time makes it almost impossible that someone WOULDN'T be related to such figures if their bloodline survived at all. Obviously people with the majority of their bloodlines leading back to the same region of the planet as such a figure would likely have MORE ancestors related to the figure, but every single person the planet has at least a few.
I honestly don't remember from when I studied it how recently (historically) it is that the probabilities change such that you have a low rather than high liklihood of being related to any figure born at a certain date in history. Off the top of my head (trying to remember that stuff), I'd probably guess about 1000 A.D.
Afterall, over enough generations, it only takes a few children conceived by mixed parents for nearly an entire population to eventually share at least one bloodline to a family from a completely different part of the planet despite the loss of any outward appearance that there ever were children born to parents of vastly different lineage. The fact that such things have been left delibrately undocumented or obscured in records throughout history makes it all but impossible to determine by tracking written records.
Most people certainly share the BULK of their bloodlines with one (or a few) identifiable ethnic group(s), but everyone almost certainly has a few stray bloodlines here, a few there, a few they probably don't even know about that tie to completely different groups they hardly bear any resemblance to and would never suspect they are decsended from as closely as they are.
So, in reality, who knows. |
You do know that it only about 100 generations since Christ, yes? [Yes yes, that assumes 20 years for a generation. Make it babies at 15 and it is only 130 generations.]
Not a very large number is it? I've been staggered ever since I realised that.
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14-01-2004 04:29
Washingtonople would be... well, bad.
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