divine.216

Ooo, I'm for it! ASWZ was very special for me too. I can't really spend the time to help make this happen, but I've tried to leave what I've got packaged in a nice way: http://aswz.org/ Also, with the new arena sharing across zones we should get ?go aswz listed there. (If you've been away, a handful of zones are sharing arena lists now; so ?arena can list arenas from other zones.) Lately I've been playing a bit in powerball and like night said I am on ?chat=aswz

So sad. RIP.

More likely it derives from Dylan Thomas: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377 You're right. Shakespeare copied it off of Dylan Thomas and then traveled 300 years back in time to make it look like he wrote it himself. He was very clever that way. Or Shakespeare never wrote it at all, and my prefatory "More likely" was an abundance of tenderness when showing you wrong.

More likely it derives from Dylan Thomas: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377

For those amused by schizophrenic ramblings, this sweetheart spewed even lumpier puke on PB's forum: http://forum.powerballzone.com/viewtopic.php?t=291

aswz is not really live -- nobody has stepped forward to run it. The zone is online, and in principle people can play. But there are no bots, no staff, nothing but the settings and a long-time favorite map for those who want to reminisce. That said, yes it is on a linux server.

The whole damn thing. Not to mention the cost. I am terrified by the prospect of our jaw-dropping national debt. But I'm glad the health care bill passed, it is a social priority for me, and it needed to happen. So while we need to cut spending, I would begin cutting elsewhere.

I disagree. A law requiring the purchase of an item is none of those three. This doesn't require you to purchase anything. You don't have to purchase health insurance, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. You don't have to have children, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. You don't have to buy a house, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. . . . etc.

SeVeR, I have to disagree. Removing all social safety nets would indeed cause a big uptick in crime, but we still have police and other ways to keep the peace. My reference to "taking all your stuff" was to calm Dr Brain's discontent by offhandedly invoking the social contract (submit to law and, in exchange, we'll enforce it for all). Of course private charities help people, all the time. It's just not clear that a system of private charity completely answers society's need (it didn't back in the day). And I agree with Dr Brain that government welfare displaces a lot of private charity. But this is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, without private charity you eliminate most of the heroic virtue of giving, as Dr Brain laments, by making it coercive. On the other hand, government "charity" is both hampered and protected by all the limits of government activities (equal protection, due process, etc.). A church-based "welfare" program could avoid a lot of bureaucratic knots and paperwork; but like any private charity, the church could also refuse to help people who are irish, gay, black, male, or ugly.

I'm not inclined to argue constitutional theory, but suffice it to say you overstate our procedural protections against impulsive majorities. It is not absolute. And whatever policy disagreements we have over health care reform -- desirable or not -- the implementation falls comfortably within the congressional powers to tax, spend, and regulate commerce. Are you peeved about the individual mandate, insurance company restrictions, or something else? I'm unsure what you're arguing: (1) moral ("it's wrong!"), (2) legal ("law says you can't!"), or (3) sociological ("your tactics, even if moral and legal, won't work!"). Put differently, if we fail to "realize" your theft-distinction between government welfare and private charity, then does that make our efforts to legislate social welfare programs (1) evil, (2) lawless, or (3) just ineffective?

You argue in vague absolutes. Your "rights" (which one's pray tell?) aren't terribly helpful if we (the people) decide not to enforce them for you. If entitlement programs get your panties in a bunch, and you can't get behind helping the poor and the unfortunate, then consider welfare measures to be the cost of preventing the poor from taking all of your stuff. It's the low road to civic virtue.

http://lists.aswz.org/listinfo.cgi/players-aswz.org

Echoing Dr. Brain's point: many of us, when we're not playing, already use ASSS zones as IRC-like chat rooms. I have a chat client (a modified CCC) permanently logged into sub-arenas of PB and ASWZ, connected to selected chat channels. I use it just like IRC. Vanilla ASSS with chatnet enabled, if connected to the biller, will work just fine. To chat on a phone or anywhere else requires new chat clients, not new servers.

Towns aren't printing money, they can't. (And in any case, imo, they shouldn't.) "No state shall ... coin money" - U.S. Const. art. I sec. 10 "The Congress shall have power ... [t]o coin money [and] regulate the value thereof" - U.S. Const. art. I sec. 8 These are local businesses printing play money; Disney Dollars indeed.

(cross-posted at mgb's forum) chasm from subspace.game.net import Player p = Player("playername", "password", ("zone.aswz.org", 5000)) p.login() p.messenger.send_public_message("hello!") p.set_ship(4) p.messenger.send_remote_message("divine.216", "I'm in a terrier!") # move the ship around and set basic data p.set_ship_data(x=8192,y=8192,energy=1000,bounty=100) # private message everyone in the arena for person in p.arena_player_list.all(): p.messenger.send_private_message(person.id, "I'm about to start turning in circles!") # rotate all the way around for rot in range(40): p.set_ship_data(rotation=rot) sleep(0.5) # sleep for half a second to slow down the turn p.messenger.send_public_message("okay, I'm dizzy now, g'bye!") p.logout()