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I think you might be missing the point, Khris.

No one (at least not me) gives a shit about whether the note is added to the manual. It's kind of irrelevant.

The issue here, and I won't sugar coat because you clearly have no time for that, is that you are being a cunt.
It's exactly the same response you got after calling that guy a "braindead moron" after his first post.

I don't doubt that your intentions are good but I think you've been on the internet too long and have forgotten that there are actual people behind the usernames.

When the guy suggested a manual change would it have killed you to say something like "Well I'm not sure that's really necessary but it might be useful, we'll see what others say."?

But no, you're response was to say OP had done something stupid even after the issue had been solved.

We're sorry that we can't live up to your standard of greatness but perhaps you can find some empathy lying beneath your massive intellect just to make us all feel a little less shit upon.

mmmk?

Side note: the nemesis thing was creepy.

I hate this entire culture of accommodating every little shitty whim just because it's polite or whatever.

I wonder what the world would be like if you were polite.

You know that a single-payer system would have to be funded via taxes, right? So, it wouldn't necessarily be cheaper than the ACA, and you would be forced to pay for it!

It almost certainly would be cheaper for a whole host of reasons. Primarily the increased bargaining power.

Spoiler

That is indeed the conflagration in question and Lear does refer to shakespeares king lear.

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I think you have enough information now to start thinking about connections.

Yep, 2 down.

As for scoring it's usually done by ear. You start with 6 and the host gives you a proportion of that depending on how much help you had.

So far you have a full 6 as far as i can see. [EDIT: oh now wait you cheated, MINUS 1 POINT!]

Also, put your answers in hide tags so others can try and guess the answer if they are late to the party.

In the game you start with 6 points but I won't penalise you for just asking if youre on the right lines.

So I will say this,
CaptainD is onto something.
Stupot picked the right port.

A good start!

I can't stop you googling stuff but it might be nicer if you didn't and tried to pool your knowledge as a community i guess.

It's actually not if you approach it in pieces and try and work out each individual piece. Then, even if you can't get a part, you might be able to piece it together with the parts you do know.

There is a show on british radio (the name of which I will omit to discourage cheating) and it asks a panel a series of general knowledge questions masked as a riddle. It's a great show and this week they had a great question which I will now put to you, the AGS Forum.

You are allowed to ask for confirmation that you're on the right lines and for hints but every time I help you you will lose some points!! OH NO NOT POINTS!

All the questions take the same form and its something like "guess all these things and then make a connection or do something with the answers to get the final answer"

Here is the question:

Taken in order, how can an 1864 conflagration; one of Lear's dukes; a formidable relative of Henry Pulling or Jack Worthing; and a cinque port, produce a mythical cupbearer?

Well no pirate is complete without a peg leg and hook!

I don't think your work would be complete until the pirate were formally dressed.

Did anyone participate? The games went to freeplay last night.

http://www.indiespeedrun.com

Oh.. I also made games with Ben304 and the Primordia guys that you might want to play (And totally rate fairly (highly))

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/indie-speed-run/?game=279
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/indie-speed-run/?game=253

But, it often happens that a victim will give consent while intoxicated and later realize that their inebriation prevented them from making a sound judgement.  This isn't just a bad choice on their part.  This is a physical inability to properly consent.

I think this exemplifies the problem with modern feminism's approach to rape. Are we to assume that women are children who aren't responsible for their actions? It's insulting to both sexes and a totally skewed perspective of reality.

If I drive drunk can I say "Well I wouldn't have driven drunk if I were of sound mind."? No, of course not. Just because you are drunk does not mean you are absolved of your responsibilities to yourself and to others.
Also, what if the "rapist" is drunk? Can he consent? What if the man is slightly more drunk than the woman. Has he just been raped?

Of course, it goes without saying that if a woman is unconscious and/or so drunk they are actually physically unable to consent then that's different.

Let's not always relegate the woman to the passive role in sex. Let's assume perhaps that she is an equal participant.

Let's also assume that 98% of men will not fuck a girl who is half conscious, vomiting and possibly covered in her own urine.
Exactly how terrible are men supposed to be in this fiction?

Speaking of array ranges, it would be really useful to be able to get an array length at runtime.

Ideally arrays would be objects like in C# but some kind of C-like function would be fine too.

Code: ags

int len = ArrayLength(myArray);

[stop treating people who cannot pay for it]

You should be fine re:mandate.

People who cannot afford coverage because the cost of premiums exceed 8 percent of their household income or those whose household incomes are below the minimum threshold for filing a tax return are exempt.

Also, surely as an unemployed person you qualify for medicaid anyway?

On the whole I support the ACA simply because it's better than what you had before and less people will die from lack of insurance. That is a good thing.

Ideally you'd move to a european style health care system but that's simply politically impossible in the US. Which is actually fine with me. I appreciate that any kind of socialist system is anathema to the american people and I respect that. You have your political beliefs and, as a country, you are willing to stick by them.

*However* I will say that America's healthcare system is a little bit schizophrenic. It seems like you can't decide if healthcare is a right or a luxury. If it's a right then provide it to all people irrespective of the ability to pay (like the UK). If it's a luxury then stop treating people who cannot pay for it. If you treat people who can't pay then it just drives up the cost of healthcare for those who can which is irresponsible and immoral (if you accept that healthcare is a luxury). To put it bluntly, you should just let them literally die in the street. Anything else, in a for-profit system, is immoral because it drives up costs for those who have a job and can pay and because it hurts the healthcare business unfairly.

I've been wondering about more McCarthy Chronicles? How are those going, Calin, if any?

I'm currently tied up with other things but I do tend to return to McCarthy as a long term series once i'm done with the current projects.

If I walked into a dangerous neighborhood wearing an expensive watch and sunglasses and carrying £500 in cash and I was mugged it wouldn't be my *fault* because I hadn't done anything wrong but It might've been partially caused by my behaviour.

First: So not your fault, but actually your fault. You were asking for it.

Bull. Shit.

Advice on risk avoidance is never apportionment of fault. It simply isn't.

Also, any stance to the contrary is tacitly implying that women can do nothing about rape which disempowers women and is misogynist at its core. Now who's fucking up the object/subject dichotomy?

Second: A statistically significant portion of rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows.

This is an often cited and misleading statistic.
It's true that most rapes are committed by someone the woman knows but it's also true that 90% of rapists are recidivists.

This whole "teach men not to rape" type stuff is insulting, foolish and ineffective.
It's insulting because 98% of men *don't rape*.
it's ineffective because you can't "educate" the other 2% of sociopathic nutcases.
and it's foolish because it teaches women that their rapist might have just made a mistake and they didn't fully understand because they hadn't been educated on the issue. Women might be much more likely to report their rapist if they knew he has almost certainly done this before and will do it again.

There's a difference between blame and cause I think.

If I walked into a dangerous neighborhood wearing an expensive watch and sunglasses and carrying £500 in cash and I was mugged it wouldn't be my *fault* because I hadn't done anything wrong but It might've been partially caused by my behaviour.

Quoth the server, "404"

I agree actually.

I find the "teach men not to rape" campaign to be problematic for a whole host of reasons.

I also feel that it, to some degree, robs women of agency. This is ironically something I see a lot in feminist theory.

Or is he...

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