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he likes strategy games. Thus, I'd wager on it.

	25-02-2005 05:41									#32
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You are a doofus.

	25-02-2005 05:48									#33
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I am not a betting person, but I am very close to offer you a wager.

	25-02-2005 06:03									#34
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I bet you the person is female.

	25-02-2005 06:30									#35
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	25-02-2005 06:31									#36
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I've actually read MIM notes before, their newsletter. These guys are just a walking barrel of laughs.

	25-02-2005 06:49									#37
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Unreadable.

Incidentally, I've started to read "SnowFire" as "Hongflake". It's annoying.

	25-02-2005 06:55									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident the usefulness of police forces is debatable. NYC has the highest number, but they also have high crime, and a very high population. Imagine how bad it'd be if they had half the number of police.

You don't know what you're talking about. Compared to other large cities, NYC has a low crime rate, esp. violent crime. It is, in fact, one of the safest big cities. A recent FBI report on crime nationwide ranked New York’s serious crime rate #203 of the 216 U.S. cities with a population of at least 100,000, and NYC is the safest of the top 25 largest U.S. cities.

And while I wouldn't attribute it solely to the police, I have to acknowledge the police is vastly responsible for the decrease in crime in NYC since the 1970s (it has been a steady downward trend). Huge police initiatives have been launched to clean up bad neighborhoods, and they have been successful. I'm not an authoritarian type of guy, but having lived in NY for 5 years, I cannot deny that the police were integral in reducing the crime rate.

	25-02-2005 08:29									#40
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Avatar of choice?

There's no point in betting. You'll never find out. MIM members keep their identies ultra xenon secret.

This is chegitz guevara 1 for chegitz notes.

	25-02-2005 08:58									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel I mean many of the general ideas he presented on life and society, although they weren't put in good words. His revisionism is boring, and stupid, but that's always the case with revisionism. The fact that he presents it in a very poor fashion doesn't make the ideology flawed ( there are other thing that do this ). It's like using fez' posts to "prove" that capitalism, and esp. it's more extreme parts are wrong and smuggly going "hur hur hur" over the fake victory.

I'm not sure that anyone was going after communism directly, at least not yet. The MIM's particular version of it provides more than enough fodder for mockery without going after a target like Marx that's defensible.

I'm mostly just puzzled by your attitude towards these people who share your ideals just enough to make you look bad. Imagine if some guy were to stand up and tell people, say, that pederasty is wrong, and then go on to refer to the aliens who beamed prophecies about its wrongness into his brain from their base on the moon. I would note the validity of some of his points by my estimation, if it came to that, but I wouldn't rush to defend his philosophy as a whole on the basis of the very general points we happened to agree on.

	25-02-2005 09:04									#42
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But Elok, we're commies as a whole.

BTW, the famine that occured was during the Great Leap Forward, not the Cultural Revolution, which was an entirely different bit of nastiness. Also, these folks believe that the terrible crimes committed by Stalin and Mao are merely capitalist lies. The problem is, there has been such a great amount of lying by anti-communist that it becomes feasable for these guys to rationalize the deaths away by saying its just more lying. There's certainly a massive amount of exageration, which also lends support to the Stalinist mindset.

	25-02-2005 09:12									#43
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That's not a very sensible attitude. It sounds very similar to, say, defending Bush's Iraq policy as a sign of support for a "fellow American." The lunatic fringe is there to be corrected, or else set apart until such time as it's grown up a little.

	25-02-2005 11:31									#44
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They also review music. This quote was my favorite.

quote: I was hoping to use the Radiohead chat forum as evidence one way or another, but the fans there are often so silly as to defy categorization.

Internet 1, Commies 0

	25-02-2005 12:45									#45
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quote: Avatar of choice?

I've told you, I am not betting. zero-sum

quote: I'm mostly just puzzled by your attitude towards these people who share your ideals just enough to make you look bad. Imagine if some guy were to stand up and tell people, say, that pederasty is wrong, and then go on to refer to the aliens who beamed prophecies about its wrongness into his brain from their base on the moon. I would note the validity of some of his points by my estimation, if it came to that, but I wouldn't rush to defend his philosophy as a whole on the basis of the very general points we happened to agree on.

I haven't agree with his entire ideology: just many of the points he was making in his reviews....

	25-02-2005 16:23									#46
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: Originally posted by Proteus_MST And I´d like to know what kind of dreams he had. Maybe dreams of making love to the AI? Why are you assuming the reviewer is male?

Why are you assuming the AI is female ?

	25-02-2005 18:41									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel I haven't agree with his entire ideology: just many of the points he was making in his reviews....

Ah. You might want to make that more clear then, and point out what specifically he's saying that you agree with. There's too much loony crap in there to just say "I agree with many of his points," and leave it at that...

	25-02-2005 18:53									#48
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quote: Why are you assuming the AI is female ?

Why are you assuming the writer is straight-male, or homosexual-female?

	25-02-2005 21:06									#49
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Great site

Behind the veil of crap (u$, Amerikkka, hymyn, and so on), the reviews do raise some interesting questions about the behind-the-scenes politics of videogames. Their answers are often a load of bull, but the insight is sometimes quite interesting.

Too bad there's so much zealotry, tho.

	25-02-2005 21:15									#50
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What Spiffor said . ( the man apparently can't be wrong! )

	25-02-2005 21:15									#51
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Zealotry scares people. There's no place for it.

	25-02-2005 21:19									#52
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Hi AZ! Long time no see! How are you doing?

	25-02-2005 21:24									#53
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I am doing well, thanks. between exams, so I can kick it and relax, a bit.

	25-02-2005 21:30									#54
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Cool

I am finishing my uni paper, so I shouldn't be hanging here

Speaking of which, I'm disconnecting now. Later!

	26-02-2005 00:23									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov You don't know what you're talking about. Compared to other large cities, NYC has a low crime rate, esp. violent crime. It is, in fact, one of the safest big cities. A recent FBI report on crime nationwide ranked New York’s serious crime rate #203 of the 216 U.S. cities with a population of at least 100,000, and NYC is the safest of the top 25 largest U.S. cities. And while I wouldn't attribute it solely to the police, I have to acknowledge the police is vastly responsible for the decrease in crime in NYC since the 1970s (it has been a steady downward trend). Huge police initiatives have been launched to clean up bad neighborhoods, and they have been successful. I'm not an authoritarian type of guy, but having lived in NY for 5 years, I cannot deny that the police were integral in reducing the crime rate.

you are missing the second part of my post. I'm simply agreeing that the police forces do work.

And by high crime, I'm talking about raw numbers because of the high population. It's going to have more crime simply because it has more population. But imagine if you had half the police forces you have now. I'm sure you'd have more crime problems.