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Uh, FF is massively customizable, has developers who give a !@#$%^&* (well, I suppose the $100 million in ad money might be a motivation?), and offers routine upgrades. Comparing that with Netscape is like comparing an F-16 with a Stone Age cart.

There's no logical reason to drop banking interest rates to 1%, although there are lots of reasons against it : Most importantly, there's nothing to spend points on unless you get hundreds of thousands of them. The average user might earn 1,000 in several months via posting - which, if you do the math, results in a mere quadrupling of points over a nearly six-month period at the 1% rate. At the 4% rate, you would have 256 times your original number of points in the same period. Therefore, !@#$%^&*uming 4% rates, a newbie who starts banking immediately could theoretically have 250,000+ points by the time he has been here only slightly longer than half a year - however, if he has the 1% rate, then he will receive only about 4,000 points. Now, I suppose that wouldn't be so bad under some cir!@#$%^&*stances - after all, a few big members have millions each banked in the system - but it is pointless to just suddenly clamp down on everyone, when those who already have points have no incentive to spend them on the !@#$%^&*ty prizes available, and those who would consider earning enough to spend them cannot scrounge up enough points to accomplish anything. I hate to sound like an advocate of libertarianism here*, but making it impossible for people to do anything without getting 50 friends together and spending a month working on a project doesn't sound like a good way to get things done, especially with the extremely small steady user base - and the lack of points gained from posting in the lounge**. While some changes of this nature worked in the past (such as majorly dropping the lotto prizes), this one just speaks volumes about the stupidity, or, more kindly, the unthinking nature of the many recent happenings on this forum. *COUGH NAVBAR COUGH* Therefore, I officially request that you change the interest rate back to 4%, or else change prices, lotto prize sizes, and available prizes to make the whole thing worthwhile. - Fin *I'm not, by the way, because this is a zero-effort, infinite-resources game with no bearing on reality - thus, standard logic does not apply. **Were those posts to be counted, most people's points would be much higher - but, of course, that would still be irrelevant, because it would be impossible to create long-term stockpiles due to the incredibly pathetic interest rates.

Wait.. 90% of the people who visit this forum are tech-savvy FF users, and we're the ones getting the short end of the stick?

Actually, it's more credible because Ail also believes that muslims are engaged in a vast conspiracy to kill all the Catholics in Russia and England, that France and Germany heavily back terrorists, and that, while the government (excluding Bush) is totally evil, corporations are almost always totally benevolent and helpful - whereas Astro, if a bit nutty on occasion, tends to avoid going off the deep end. Also, the fact that her daughter is currently pregnant certainly lends credence to the idea that she could have done it before, and they could be breaking the news early to avoid letting the other scandal come to the surface. I'm not saying it's necessarily true, but there's a decent chance it is. - Fin Edit - She's looking worse by the day. Is joining an Alaskan secessionist party considered a scandal, especially when she talked about "state's rights" in her acceptance speech? Edit2 - Also, More about the "Bridge to Nowhere." I can't help laughing at this. The media has been sucking McCain's !@#$%^&* for months now by avoiding mentioning anything that might hurt a feeble, senile old man *COUGH* REAGAN PRESS CONFERENCES *COUGH*, but they seem to be really getting into the anti-Palin thing. Just goes to show you how biased the press is towards anyone that seems likely to win - now that Obama's further increased his lead, they've finally jumped McCain's ship. Edit3 - I find it hilarious that you quoted McCain on Obama "being absent for half his time as a Senator" - perhaps we're forgetting that Bush spent something like 3 years on vacation during his period as president? Which is especially disturbing when one considers that many of his vacations occurred just after drastic events which one would expect the president to care about. I don't see how that pattern would change if McCain were elected, because he'd always be off at the health spa. "Dear, could you turn it up a little?" "The temperature, Mr. President?" "No, the voltage on my defibrillator."

root, I'll show mine if you show yours. (stomachs)

MODERATOR WARNING: Aceflyer is a fat !@#$%^&*got !@#$%^&*. IN-JOKE LOLZ

She's not a maverick. She was actually for the "Bridge to Nowhere," and as far as the "crusading against corruption," that was just to take out threats to her power. She's about as much of a maverick as Brezhnev.

I found it even before X said that. Nice one.

Lynx, you got me all unzipped and then you just stopped? Man, you're cruel..

Why am I thinking of a PBF comic...?

You're all a bunch of gay !@#$%^&*ing reASSS. I hope you all die through lack of oxygen while buried in a pile of your own !@#$%^&*. Better yet, I hope you all die through lack of oxygen while buried in someone else's !@#$%^&*. Maybe that would teach you the value of cooperation and civility. As far as the issue goes - X has initiated many cross-zone efforts before, so that part is very believable. However, Ace, you are making yourself look like a total !@#$%^&*hole by banning these people, providing insufficient justification, getting angry, and then screaming that, by golly, you don't need any justification at all. Unless you're running Halo, I don't suggest you follow that kind of policy. So what say Ace unbans everyone he banned for no reason, and everyone else (except Lynx, who's at least funny) ends their anti-Ace campaign? GG. I WIN. I AM THE MEDIATOR. PREPARE TO BE MEDIATED. - Alfred Sexylegger

Bleh, I had a big reply typed out earlier, but it was kinda jumbled and incoherent, so I decided to replace it with a small reply that, while still being jumbled, might hopefully be more coherent. Er.. I'm with Polix. Probably 10-20,000 of the best-educated and wealthiest New Orleaners (?) will permanently leave after Gustav goes through, especially if it's handled badly (which it probably will be, even now that Bush got religion on the disaster relief issue) - but the majority of the city's population will stick around. It's got a population of 275,000, with a metro of about 1.1 million - there's simply no way that you can move that many people from a fairly rich city into a poor, rural, and underemployed countryside and expect to get away without riots or anarchy. Also, even after Katrina, New Orleans has still got infrastructure worth hundreds of billions at the least. It's a lot simpler to pay $40,000 to repair a $150,000 house or office than to start over from scratch in a new area, where you don't know if you can get customers or, for that matter, workers. In fact, if I may propose an utterly (I hope, anyway) unconventional viewpoint - Gustav might trigger a net immigration, due to a likely panic-sellout of some of the best properties and businesses in the area, which could lure in Texans and ambitious Mississippans. The mini-boom might not last long, but, combined with the exodus of NO's current elite, could cause a definite power shift as far as economics and city politics are concerned.

Ah, I guess that makes sense. I !@#$%^&*umed it was just done to make the front page smaller. Although, @Ace & Cre, I do disagree with the !@#$%^&*essment of WD's activity levels. It always goes faster at certain times, but going several days without a significant topic, and letting all the old ones just die? That's not normal at all.

I did not have size with that !@#$%^&*oris.

Lumping the secondary forums into "Other" has pretty much killed Politics and, as far as I can tell, largely decreased traffic to Lounge. Split 'em up again, what say? - Fin

Is it true that height is related to toe length which is related to fibula length which is related to nose length which is related to arm length which is related to sternum thickness which is related to navel width which is related to penis / !@#$%^&*oris length?

Wasting time har!@#$%^&*ing someone is a bad thing to do, but it only takes a minute or two to make a post on here, so that argument kinda fails.

He's a Chaos Zone sysop.

Up until today I loved the woman - nothing wrong with a very-conservative-yet-flexible governor in a liberal-yet-conservative state, right? However, today, the "ticker question" has really come up for the first time (when Romney was the presumptive VP, it wasn't really an issue) - I think that's going to be his biggest liability from picking her. Overall, though, I think that, regardless of her merits (none of which apply as a VP candidate), this was one !@#$%^&* of a choice for McCain. Reasons below: (Note that mine are far sexier than Veg's) #1 - She was a surprise. In the same way people !@#$%^&*umed Putin would hold on to power, but then they stopped believing it once he set up the party bigwigs as his successors, only to be shocked when he went with Medvedev, McCain put Palin on the list, then slowly let her drift off until nobody cared anymore - this was especially enhanced when the Lieberman rumors started coming out last week. People figured, Hey, it might not be Romney, but it's definitely going to be Lieberman, right? #2 - She's pro-life. This is the absolutely biggest boost he could give to his campaign. She went through with her fifth kid, which has earned her the respect of many, many right-wingers and fundies. That should give him a very large boost among the fundie demographics - and it also proves me right in another topic, by the way, but don't let Hoch hear that. Also, this isn't a big negative to him, because at this point he's running 95% within the Republican party - even if he hasn't officially given up on Independents, it's very much a sideshow for him now, as far as I can tell. Besides, liberals (in the vast majority of cases) don't make abortion into an all-troops-mobilized issue the way conservatives do. I personally would have supported her right to abort that baby, but I would never say she should have been forced to. After all, that's what pro-choice is about, right? So ultimately, he cements his grip on the right while giving up very little ground to the left. Good move for him. #3 - She's a female (as Veg said). However, contrary to what I saw in most blog posts today, this has nothing to do with "winning the female vote" - he doesn't have a chance in !@#$%^&* of doing that, and he knows it. The core crowd of Hillary supporters could be described as working class liberal / middle-class educated white feminists, and they have no reason to shift support from a guy they don't specifically like to a guy that has promised to take a completely opposing stance on the majority of the issues they care about. The real reason this benefits him is because it simply keeps the Hillary question open at all. The news that the roll call vote could possibly reopen some old wounds briefly gave those supporters more hope, and returned her to the front pages. Now, a few days after she finally gave support to Obama, McCain's getting someone who will keep those women wondering, "Why didn't Obama give her VP?" So, even though McCain won't win those voters, he could at least discourage them from voting, or, in the most implausible scenario, swing them to McKinney or Nader. #4 - Nobody knows anything about her. Unlike with Obama, where picking Sebelius would have been the death knell of his campaign, McCain's choice of a total outsider will help his campaign redefine the terms of the race - if she's working from a blank slate, then she can become (until the election, at least) anything he wants her to be. #5 - The mountain west. While Obama isn't looking as strong there as he was a couple months back, he still has a shot at Nevada, Montana, North Dakota, and, though it was always unlikely, Arizona - I'm personally anticipating a stronger-than-predicted Barr performance in the general election, which could knock McCain down several points in those states - a disaster that would not only make it much harder for him to close the EV gap, but also permanently alter the "Red/Blue" landscape. Well, maybe not permanently, but for at least the next 3 or 4 elections. Without Palin, McCain would have a hard time ensuring their safety, but with her - a pro-gun, (supposedly) pro-individual rights, small state leader (not much difference between someone from Alaska and Montana, when you get right down to it), he should be able to sink his claws in and hold them a lot more easily. But, even after applauding his (or his adviser's, again, who knows) political savvy, I must admit I'm disappointed in the choice. I was honestly hoping he'd pick Lieberman and end up 40-60 in the popular vote. Oh well.

I've been disappointed with the DNC, because for every conservative ultraliberal* who's been up there, they've had a dozen closet Pelosis who read the exact same slogans over and over without realizing (or, perhaps, without caring) that they're abandoning the actual liberals in the party with their weak Republican-liteism. The Obama speech was definitely one of the better parts, but he still stuck to fairly normal (and boring) subject matter - I don't smell any revolutions in the air. Ah, well, just my opinion. *Someone with very liberal views, but the background and brains to know when something will help, and when it will hurt - for example, someone who is for massive defense cuts, but is willing to maintain R&D spending and keep at least a token force in good shape.

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Cre is netbanned? News to me.

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