Aileron

Astro...Crime rate is some sort of numerical model of crime divided by the populace, so a town of 100 where 1 crime occured and a town of 1000 where 10 crimes occured would have the same rate. As for solving the problem...first off the murderers, rapists, and theives should be either be put in jail and the key thrown away or killed outright. For pros!@#$%^&*ution, I'd say there should be legalized !@#$%^&*houses, give light sentences/plea bargains to the pros!@#$%^&*utes themselves but put a heavy sentence on the pimps. I say that because every time we put a pros!@#$%^&*ute in jail, the pimp will just get some girl addicted to drugs as a replacement. As for drugs, I think we should legalize marijuanna with certain stipulations. Dealing with the other drugs would be difficult. Step 1 would be to increase security along the Mexico-US border. This probably won't stop them, but it will make their costs higher and would decrease their profit margin. Similar to prosi!@#$%^&*ution, we should stop worrying about possession and the low level dealers and nail the drug bosses' and smugglers' family jewels to the ceiling, because like the pimps, when a drug boss loses a pusher, he simply finds another one. Doing so would probably lead to escalating violence and an arms race, but the state has more resources to draw on than drug rings do, so we can simply make the cost of drug smuggling so high as to drive them out of business. Our jails are filling up because we keep taking in the expendible peons. Like minnows, the peons should be used as bait to catch larger fish. Hmmpph...maybe I should run for mayor.

No, they weren't. The people in the clan wanted them merged, but they were not merged for the same reason the tallies aren't being merged here.

Only 2010? Jeez, that's only 3 years from now...you'd think the space aliens wouldn't be so late given all of the technology they have. And when are they going to develop those flying cars we were promised? Well, it wasn't really a bad game. The reason you haven't heard of it is because they didn't make that many copies. The thing about it was that it wasn't that unique - it was very similar to most other games of the era. Single player, side view, fight your way through a level where the biggest danger by far is falling off the bottom of the screen, and then face a boss. I mean, it was a good game, but faced the problem of being so similar to every other game on the market at the time that it really didn't stand out.

Well, the most interesting one I played actually was on that subject Sama...Street Fighter 2077 (I don't remember the number exactly) for NES. Ken is an old man who's friend gets kidnapped by space aliens, so he fixes himself up with some cybernetics and kicks the !@#$%^&* of a bunch of aliens in order to rescue him. I use interesting because this installment took so many deviations from the rest of the series in its gameplay that one would not recognize it as a Street Fighter game if it were named something else.

No, actually it goes back to the 70s really. The United States' biggest problem is that lawyers simply have way too much power. In this case, it was ideological defense attorneys who didn't want to see criminals prosecuted. Punishments were lightened and more proceedures were created for law enforcement to follow. The combination of those two things made crime profitable. Crime rates then exploded. However, in rural areas like where I live, this hasn't happened. Lawyers avoid the boonies and thus haven't taken over. The cost/benefit calculations of engaging in criminal behavior haven't changed, and crime rates have pretty much stayed constant. And JDS, I doubt your entire country is like that...

Earlier today, Ailestani intelligence has conducted a feat which will be remembered throughout the ages. It was a plot so daring, so fiendish, that it can only be called: The Grand Panty Raid!!!! Ailestani infiltrators have been inside the encampments of our enemies for so long, that today in a single operation they have managed to steal each and every article of underwear, including those being worn, of all peons and leaders in the service of the 1337 soldiers, and furthermore disabled the equipment of all their textile factories so they can't make more. The result was a pile of underwear 20 stories high and weighing 100 tons. There are no definative plans as to what to do with the pile, though the leading suggestion is to recycle the elastic waistbands into a giant slingshot capable of launching projectiles deep into enemy territory, and the white cotton into white flags which can be sold back to our enemies as they will needing them next week. Special articles, such as a maroon thong formally owned by none other than JDS himself will be auctioned off and the proceeds donated to the "Feed the Starving Orphans" fund. Aileron himself had this to say: "This event is intended as a message to the infidels of the 1337 soldiers. We have infiltrated your ranks, and know every move you make. When buy something in the store, one of our agents will know. When you order something at a restaraunt, one of our agents will have access to your food. When you sneeze in public, one of our agents will be there to say geezuntight. When you take a shower, one of our agents will be photographing you on hidden camera. Every move you make, 24 hours a day, is currently being obserbed by us." In similar news today, Khalid ibn Dajage today recieved the "Pendant of Creative Thinking" medal for services in Ailestani intelligence. His !@#$%^&*ignment was to place a hidden camera in rasta420's bathroom, but instead the camera was placed in the shower of his hot 20-something year old sister. Currently our intelligence community is scouring the footage for usefull information, and though the details are classified as top secret, given the amount of time and resources devoted to analyzing these films, the results should be usefull indeed.

BTW, O'Reilly is selling "Don't Taze Me Bro" bumperstickers. Pretty funny. I don't know what idiot came up with the idea of "equal force". If followed to the letter that would mean that on average the criminal would win the fight half the time. Probably the same idiot who thinks that in a courtroom, juries shouldn't count officer's testimony as greater than that of a normal bloke - as if a police officer with 20 years of experience somehow doesn't know more about law enforcement than an average person. I guess the overall point is that lawyers have taken over the country so much that some people have forgotten common sense. Here we are arguing about whether security followed proceedures or what those proceedures should be when really we should stop !@#$%^&*uming these people are robots in need of protocols and let them make some judgement calls, and in turn use our own judgement when viewing the situation. The problem with non-lethal weapons is that weapons which can kill the weak and frail might still not be enough to disable the stronger people. I don't know anything about tasers, but I'd guess they are something that should have variable settings on them.

There are attack logs that stay in the system for several days...I just glance over the logs on a routine basis. Technically I take scores after I bank but before rank updates. I'm not doing it in a manner to cheat Falco - if he has the award when I log on he usually gets it. It's not entirely fair, but the difference should be marginal. For every one day the ranking is close enough that two people are taking it every time they log on, there are about ten days in which the guy in second place just isn't going to catch up. Granted, right now that marginal difference could mean the difference as to which clan is in the lead, but I doubt the clans are going to remain within 6 tallies of each other for very long. No, I'm not staying up until midnight every day for you people, sorry. And if you got a bot, I'd be willing to use it. I for one don't have one, or a dedicate line for internet for that matter.

True enough - but if you don't like mine you can write your own. Sound could do it. The trick for creating a 'national news' gag is to come up with a good culture to base it upon. examples: Scottish, Latin American, Barbarian, Viking, Pirate, Asian, etc. Then all you need to do is make a continuous string of stereotypical cultural jokes. Or you could pick a certain geography, such as a nation where it is very cold, and make jokes about the life of your peons in that environment. Besides, some of it was actually me not having time. I'd have to get up get ready for work, then log on, bank my points, carry out a few attacks, and take score before heading off to work, making sure to arrive on time. Thus, I didn't have time for detailed comments. Now, the process is simpler, and I can write more detailed comments.

Stow it...Now that I think about it, you've made your own contributions to this round already. We had a good two clan war, and you up and decided to create a third clan. The effect was to cut out all the income-producing players of your clan. If I'm not mistaken not a single 1337 soldier has UP higher than 150. No soldiers means no income, meaning that any aggressive player opposing you starves. I'm not going to whine about it...all I'm saying is that your tactic of not producing is very similar to the tactic of limiting soldier numbers, so stop whining about what I'm doing.

That isn't a bug...its a legitimate tactic because it has several caveats. I'm not going to get anything close to the best attack or best defense, and thus I'm also probably not going to make it too high in the ranks. There are several other things too. Hurting me isn't impossible, though it would require some amount of being clever. This tactic has been present since the very beginning of the SS RPG, and there isn't an MMORPG in existence which doesn't have atleast a couple "hitmen" who do pretty much the same thing. It's impossible to break a strong lead without some measure of mobility. It is possible to argue that this is a bad rule...but it isn't, because I've tried the alternative. The alternative is to have people with 2 or 3 soldiers massing everyone. So, its a bad rule either way, and I'd think its best to have people isolate themselves and harm no one rather than have noobs crush everyone with tiny armies.

I can't make spies and sentries count towards the total. I can remove the size limit for attacking, but that would open up even more possibilities of lame behavior. You should just be happy that sabotage isn't working yet.

Well, I'm sabbing everyone else, rasta. If I didn't sab you, I'd have to explain to everyone else why I'm giving you special treatment.

rootbear, I explicitly stated that it won't go on a keychain. The drive itself has no rings or holes. The case can go on a keychain, but the drive is liable to fall out of the tape.

I've recently lost my old flash drive and needed to buy a new one today. The upgrade turns out to be 64 Megs to 2 Gigs, so I'm not too sad about that. The problem is that my new flash drive is about the size of a quarter (a Sony Micro Vault Tiny if you know that model). It comes with a rubber slide-in case that I *know* the thing is going to fall out after the case is worn out a little. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can keep from losing it? (The drive itself is 3 cm x 1 cm, and has no holes or rings with which to attach to a keyring. The case does, but I don't trust the case.)

Well, I figure Falco is banking for lvl 10, but the good news is that now that I'm keeping my money I've been able to hold on to #1 covert. Score some tallies for the good guys.

I've gotten some decent results against Syrus actually. Still keep in mind you are only lvl 9. If sab still sucks too much, additional levels can be added.

Yeah, like closing down the farm you guys were getting points off of was a dumb decision.

I couldn't figure out what to do with the Sentry. Remember, it's still supposed to be a warbird, and are are way too many aggressive players out there already.

In a field north of JDS's territory....Aileron rallies his troops... Peon #1: What the heck are we doing out here standing in the middle of a field? Peon #2: And why are we wearing these flanel skirts? Aileron: They are ~kilts~ you floghead! They are traditional Scottish attire! Peon #2: But why are we Scottish today? Aren't we normally Persian? Aileron: Its a new theme. The latest demographic polls say that this would help us reach our target market more effectively if.... Peon #1: Okay, we get it! We're Scottish. But what are we doing out here standing in the middle of a field? Aileron: Because, today we are going invade JDS! Peon #2: Ha! Peon #1: You're crazy! We'd need Chuck Norris or Mel Gibson to do that! Aileron: Aye, and if Mel Gibson were here, he'd destroy JDS' army with fire from his eyes and lightning from his !@#$%^&*. I am the closest to Mel Gibson we're going to get, and I see a whole army of my countrymen !@#$%^&*embled to fight tyranny today! Peon #1: No! You can't fight that! We will transer to be defensive specialists, and we will live. Aileron: Aye, fight and you may die. Transfer to be defensive specialists, and you'll live...atleast for a while. And when you're dying on defense, several hours from now, would you not be willing to trade all the minutes from now until then, for once chance, just one chance, at all the points that are in JDS' treasury! ~crickets chirp~ Aileron: Alright, I'll admit that wasn't very motivational. Let's try this again: For one chance to tell JDS that he may take out points, and he may take our tallies, but he will never take OUR FREEDOM!!!! ~crickets still chirping~ Aileron: What's wrong with you peons? Look, its not impossible! I've come up with a great plan! Last night, I spread oil all over the field. All we have to do is wait for them to charge at us, and then our archers will use some flaming arrows to set the whole field on fire right out from underneath them! It can't possibly fail. This is such an origional plan that they've never seen it in a movie before, and will never suspect it! Now, all we need to do is wait for them to charge at us.... ~several hours later~ Aileron: Come on! Why aren't they charging at us! I know...we'll taunt them! ~Aileron lifts up the back of his kilt and moons JDS' army~ Peon #1: Ugh!! Peon #2: Hey, we didn't need to see that! Peon #3: Um...are we supposed to do that too, because I, um, have underwear on underneath my kilt. Peon #1: You're ~supposed~ to have underwear on. Our dear leader didn't get the memo... ~One of JDS's archers fires an arrow. It sails through the air and lands precisely on Aileron's right cheek. Aileron runs around in circles screaming before pulling it out~ Peon #1: Uh, sir...I don't think this Scottish theme is working. Peon #2: Yeah, it really isn't that funny. Peon #3: I'm afraid Mel Gibson is going to show up and kick all of our !@#$%^&*es for mocking Braveheart. Aileron: Yeah, okay, I think we'll stick to being Persians after this. How about this for motivation then...How about we KICK THEIR !@#$%^&*ES SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WEAR THESE !@#$%^&* SKIRTS AGAIN!!! Ail's Army: RRRAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!! ~Aileron grabs a sword and lobs it through the air~ Peon #2: OW! That landed on my foot! What the !@#$%^&* are you doing?!? Aileron: Nevermind that....everyone.....CHAAAAAAAAARRGE!!! Ail's Army: RRRAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!! On the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven, the Ailestani army charged the field at JDS. They fought like people trying to prove that they wen't Scottsmen, and they won their freedom.

I should just get rid of shrapnel. You could easily do the job with L1 Guns anyway.

Its how MMORPGs collapse. The staff keeps taking suggestions from the winning players, and each update tends to make it easier for those players to win. Then again we solved most of the problem by actually resetting once in a while. Still, your suggestion certainly isn't based on self interest. You probably aren't going to reset.

He thinks it was a biological weapon, and if so the first outbreak of AIDs was in Africa. Its just that as a biological weapon AIDs sucks...it takes several years to kill the victim and it doesn't spread around easily. I mean, wouldn't Anthrax be more effective? Come to think of it very few racists in history were genocidal. Most merely wanted to dominate the others in a state of servitude. The power plant would be needed to provide electricity to operate the "super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology". The atmosphere is a large thing, and to manipulate in any way shape or form takes a large amount of energy. And that theory is toast...it doesn't matter how many radio waves you shoot at any part of the atmosphere (I will assume that the device is some sort of radio-laser...a device that doesn't exist but at the same time isn't implausible)...they will go straight though without heating anything. Odds are the atmosphere would be more heated by whatever device you were using to emit the radiowave beam that by the beam itself. There are some materials that while absorb one type of electromagnetic radiation and emit another - for instance anything that glows while under a black light. However, the ionosphere doesn't react to radio waves in this manner. No form of electromagnetic radiation can penetrate the Earth, because the Earth is simply too massive an object. Finally, even if you can pull all of that off, the weather is more dependent upon solar energy than the temperature of the Earth.

Hey, Nostradumb!@#$%^&*, you are putting a lot of faith in a stone-age civilization. I don't know why but people nowadays tend to discredit our own civilization while exalting others when its really undeserved. Yes, the Mayans had an accurate calender. We know that today because our calender is much more accurate. While the Mayans were looking at the stars and developing that calendar, the rest of the world kept their mind on Earth and developed metalurgy, physics, and chemistry. Your perception of the atom is out of date. The Bohr model is only accurate for single electron atoms. Electrons don't orbit the nucleus like planets around a star. Actually when there are two or more their position can only be described by a statistical distribution, with most of the "orbits" not being circular at all. Protons and Neutrons are held together by strong nuclear forces. As of yet there are four known types of forces in the physical universe: Electromagnetic, Strong Nuclear Force, Weak Nuclear Force, and Gravitational. Physicists are trying to come up with a Grand Unifying Theory, but have not had success as of yet. If you think your opinion is sufficient, you shouldn't be talking science. I do think there is something not mentioned about AIDS, though it is not a conspiracy. Generally HIV occurs in homosexuals at a much higher rate than heterosexuals. However, that fact is not often mentioned due to political correctness. Still, the fact is that if you practice abstenance, you won't contract HIV unless you had it to begin with. If the "powers that be" are trying to preserve themselves by not sleeping around like a rodent, I'd say that's their perrogative. Technology to control the weather? Sure, we can seed storms, but...even if such a device to actually control the weather existed, do you realise how much power you would need to pull that off? I mean, if such a power plant existed, whoever is running it could bankrupt the entire Middle East just by getting people to switch to electric cars. Oh, and finally, the United States never sold AK-47s to anybody. That type of firearm was constructed by the Soviet Union. The US sold M-16s.

Well, the way I look at it, a ship with a 35% bonus to Deduction but a 15% penalty to Strike will still have a 20% bonus towards building an offense compaired to a ship with zeros. It would need more soldiers, but still.