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This indeed.

Just posting to congratulate Ham on his article - your article had me hooked throughout. Certainly agree with your choice of free trade and PVP wildy as the top, following by the GE and POHs. I disagreed only with #7, though this is more of a personal thing - I've never been much of a quest fan. Great job overall. :thumbup:

Disorder | Rating Paranoid: Low Schizoid: Moderate Schizotypal: Low Antisocial: High Borderline: Low Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: High Avoidant: Low Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate I think this is the URL of my test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv?stat=1 I'm surprised, albeit only slightly. I thought I would be more narcissistic and less histrionic, but there we are. The rest I am unsurprised by.

The Kardashians.

Speculation on TES 6 anyone? I'm convinced it will be set a few years later, and will involve a climax between the Aldmeri Dominion and the Empire. It would be a shame for the series to skip another two centuries and just 'explain' the whole Thalmor storyline.

Absolutely amazing book! If you've not read it already, I strongly recommend reading The Prince afterwards. Both juxtapose one another quite nicely. I am currently reading The Tosa Diary. I think some here might enjoy it: it's a diary written in 10th century Japan, by a famous poet and aristocrat who, assuming the identity of a woman, writes about a trip from Tosa to Kyoto, having ended his tenure as governor of the former province. In Tosa, the man lost his daughter, and his mourning is a recurrent theme throughout the book. One particularly moving extract: "Other people who were with us on the ship all have their children swarming noisily around them, and their happy cries make the sadness all the more unbearable."

Good to see you're having a better time, Gabe. I was wondering why you'd suddenly disappeared. You've stopped posting political threads for us to argue on. ;)

Good luck any and all applicants.

Pyro irl? I sure am, gone through a few bottles of lighter fluid for my zippo, which I lost the other week, and that's without using it to light anything due to the fire danger. That and the pyro is often considered chaotic neutral, which I heavily align myself to. Am I right in thinking that the deeper meaning to your tattoo is D&D? Or is the chaotic neutral also something in cosmology?

Agreed.

Question: do Daedric artifacts need to be recharged?

^ The arrow in the knee made me laugh profusely.

Good job. :thumbup:

Implying it wasn't absurd to begin with :P This is true. I feel the need to rephrase: "This thread has taken the absurd initial premise and reduced it to its yet more absurd logical conclusion."

This thread has descended into the absurd. Just a reminder for you all.

^ Therefore killing people I've done favours for could be a potentially good way of money making?

Everybody has double standards for much the same reason that Walt Whitman contradicted himself - ie, we all contain multitudes.

It's important to be informed about the past, but dwelling on it and assigning months to certain peoples and eras in history is a waste of money, effort etc. As such, I agree with Morgan Freeman.

^ I can't tell if that's a joke. Presuming that health is a born right, it is the duty of the state to uphold its citizen's right to health as best it can, and so it only follows that it will provide free healthcare irrespective of circumstance. To all extents and purposes, the right to health and free healthcare are the same thing expressed in different ways.

This game keeps amazing me. I got a letter today after a random NPC got killed by a dragon attack - apparently I was part of their will.

Although my family is not Jewish by ethnicity or religion, my sister is donating money to Friends of Israel. I keep trying to tell her not to, but she's as stubborn as Netanyahu himself.

Finished the Analects. I often feel, on this thread, that I should read these hungry games books, but I can't say I've ever heard of them. Anyone care to enlighten me as to their content?

That depends on how you define extreme. Im a taxpayer. I would rather see my taxes be paid to other deserving things such as helping the old/disabled/unintentional jobless etc. As far as Im concerned that money is better spent in those areas rather than someone who intentionally broke the law. Youre seriously misinformed or youve had your head under a stone if you dont believe the human rights system in the UK is corrupt as there are many in the UK that would disagree with you. You define it as cruel to not let a prisoner/criminal have only emergency treatment yet there are many more cruel things that seem to be permissible e.g. Ignorance of victims rights or the plight of old people which you conveniently ignored (Just like the politicians and legal profession do). What has free healthcare got to do with decreasing crime statistics? I take it the crime rate is falling because criminals get free health care? Jesus. Really, jr? The plight of old people? Care to be a little more specific, perhaps even with some evidence? Again, victims rights are not an issue in the UK whatsoever. You're speaking to someone whose family comes from Sicily, where crimes used to go unpunished because of money/connections, and to an extent still do. The problem with your argument is that there is no convincing case for stating that human rights in the UK are corrupt in any absolute sense, while, in relative terms, they rank among the best on the planet. I added in an aside about crime statistics to counter your points on self-responsibility and how awful it is today, when in the 1970s and before - which you seem quite nostalgic about - crime was statistically higher and so presumably self-responsibility more lacking. @sees: The problem with citing Locke is that his conception of liberalism is over 300 years old and not to be taken seriously. It's long since been surpassed.

It's good to see there's someone else appreciating RuroKen here. :mrgreen: Also, for anyone (which should be everyone here) who is a fan of Miyazaki, this is a wonderful analysis of Spirited Away. I always knew it was an anti-capitalist film, but I never knew it was quite so layered and subtle. PS: Necro not intended, just forgot about this thread :P

Brb buying criminals for slaves since they've 'forfeited human rights'. This is exactly the problem I see with jr's argument. The UK legal system isn't corrupt because it allows prisoner's healthcare as far I am concerned. The area of disagreement here is essentially how extreme (not intended as a pejorative) you want to be with interpreting the extent of their social contract compared to their rights. I think that a lawbreaker should certainly forfeit their right to vote, which is granted by their social contract, for the duration of their prison sentence, but I think that denying them the free healthcare entitled to everyone else is cruel as far as I am concerned. Self-responsibility is one thing, but given that crime has always been a fact of life, and that it has been decreasing in the UK for years with criminals getting healthcare, extreme knee-jerks aren't going to help affairs.