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[junc]

Bush can believe he's right, and I have no doubt that he does in fact believe that he's right.Ã,  Zealots and fanatics also believe they're right.Ã,  Bush shares a rather disturbing form of unwavering righteousness with the very same terrorists he denounces.Ã,  Bush is a zealot, he's a radical, and he's surrounded by ideologues.Ã,  He scares the living shit out of me.

I've often found it wierd that he [Bush] wants to hunt down these terrorist to put a stop to their evil and hatred.

Yet the way he speaks about it (and goes about it) seems evil and full of hatred ...

Wanting to defend America(ns) is nobel ... but dramaticizing it with powerful rhetoric just seems ... juvenile??

I wish Bush would realize that while you can't negotiate with terrorists, the way he's going about dealing with them, while somewhat effective in the now, is only creating new/more terrorists in the long run and will just perpetuate this 'War on Terror'.

Why not hunt down the reason the terrorists hate us (America) in the first place?

junc - I, too, liked that Kerry used Bush Sr. against Jr..Ã,  It was an elegant way to throw a barb in there (no pun intended) without resorting to useless insults.

I don't trust politicians:

[paraphrasing]
"I'm a politician ... which means; when I'm not kissing babies hands, I'm stealing the candy from them." - Hunt for Red October

Having said that, Kerry impressed me in the debates.Ã,  It's been a long time since I've been impressed with a presidential candidate, or any politician for that matter.

Do I trust him?Ã,  No.

Do I think he could do a better job than Bush?Ã,  Yes.

Having been stood up by Princess Leia, Dr. Evil arrived with his new date ...

... the situation in Iraq seems like a quagmire no matter which way you go. Ã, The international community is not going to send troops into Iraq. Ã, Bush burned too many bridges.

I think most people can see exactly where the Viet ... I mean Iraq situation is headed.

I like to think (perhaps naively) that if the US votes a new leader into office, one who is willing (and wants) to repair the bridges that Bush has burned, the rest of the world leaders should be willing to start a new.Ã,  New leader, new policies, new hope, blah blah blah ...

Darth, I see from you're profile you're from Florida. Dude, you live in Florida! You think your vote doesn't matter!?! Were you around in 2000? Every vote counts, especially in a swing state like Florida (even if they're not all counted). The election in 2000 came down to just a few hundred votes. Get your ass an absentee ballot!

I didn't live in Florida then.Ã,  I've only been here about a year.Ã,  I am looking into getting an absentee ballot ... as to whether or not I'll use it ...

Let me explain my (uneducated) take on why I find my vote to be useless.

In the 2000 presidential election, GW got 47.87% of the popular vote (50,456,002 votes) and Al Gore received 48.38% (50,999,897 votes).Ã,  But Bush took 271 electoral votes, to Gore's 266.Ã,  (statistics from here) So we got stuck with Bush when it should have been Gore.Ã,  (I didn't particularly want Gore as president either ...)

Now it would seem to me, that in a democratic society that is "by the people" where they shove the 'privelage' of the vote down our throats, the candidate with the most of the popular vote should win.

The electoral college can make the popular vote completely pointless.Ã,  It's like a safety valve ... if those in power don't agree with the popular vote, just use the electoral college to put who you want in office.

Sure it's only happened 3 times in history (1824, 1888, 2000) but that's three times too many if you ask me.

It seems common sense to me, if Gore got more votes by the people' he should have won the election.Ã,  But 'lo and behold what's this??Ã,  Florida can't seem to get the count right ... and somehow, after all the BS, GW is elected.

You know ... the governor of Florida must haveÃ,  been so embarassed ...

I always thought you marked off the center of the room and started placing the tile from there?

I sure hope I'm correct 'cause that's how I did BOTH of my bathrooms here!

I don't have much to add to what's already been said.

I think it's off to a pretty good start.

I used to do a lot of 3D modeling years ago ... I keep meaning to get back to it someday.

Actually, I was Bush-bashing when I said that. I meant that yes, he believes in his actions and his opinions, but his actions are very misguided and his opinions don't have much basis.

Oops ... well either way, I'm not going to bash the moron.

I'm not a huge fan of R.E.M. but it's cool that they're releasing another album.  I always like it when bands stand the test of time.

[YOke]

my vote goes to YOke

I've always dug his style of BGs.

Great stuff man!

I have been an adamant 'non-voter' for some years now.

I guess I just never saw the point.

It's not as if my vote means anything (especially with the archaic electoral college still in place.) Ã, However, as I get older and more established in this crazy world I find myself feeling more and more involved in the whole 'political scene'.

I'm not going to get into Bush bashing. Ã, As DG said, though he may not coherently form his thoughts into speech, I do think he believes in what he's saying.

Sara and I were watching together (she hates Bush with a STRONG passion) and I said, "You know, this is how it seems to me; Ã, Bush is spittin' out things he's memorized. Ã, But Kerry seems to know what he's saying."

They're both politicians, so I trust them no further than I can throw them.

"Well Ed with your bad back you shouldn't be throwing anything!"
"Go suck your head."

Bush was, I think, just out 'politicianed' last night.Ã,  I think Kerry is a better thinker and (obviously) a smarter man.Ã,  It was very one sided from my way of thinking.

Bush kept referring to 'wrong war, wrong place, wrong time'.Ã,  If you have to keep going back to the same thing over and over then you've lost the debate in my opinion.

Between Kerry's (convincing) attitude, displeasure with GeeDub, and Drew Barrymore ... I might just vote this time.Ã,  Too bad I'm going to be in Las Vegas on Nov. 2nd.

Tell Jim Jones and David Koresh I say hello.

But seriously ... it sounds like you're liking what you're doing and that's the important thing.

I enjoy helping others too.

Will you be releasing these games you're going to be making for the kids to the AGS community?

Always a costume-party favorite, nobody was suprised when Princess Leia showed up.

[SEARCH]

All of this is correct of course.

However ... I have found him!!

He's in the myriad threads that have asked this question before which can be conveniently located by using the forum's SEARCH feature.

This one was particularly insteresting to me, you might find it so as well:
Where is Yahtzee?

A clever title to be sure ...

[Darth Mandarb's Advice (earned from bitter experience)]

Seducing the man is the worst thing you can do to him!!!

I've been in the position before.Ã,  When I was 23 I had a 17 year old that kept asking me out!Ã,  Sure, she was smokin' hot and incredible, but I didn't feel like going to jail.Ã,  (we went out on a date the night she turned 18, but that's neither here nor there)

But this guy ... he's your teacher for God's sake!Ã,  I don't know how it works in your corner of the world, but in American school systems he'd be fired just for the flirting with a student.Ã, 

Darth Mandarb's Advice (earned from bitter experience)
Momentary satisfaction is NEVER worth it if the long term consequences are bad.Ã,  Ã, While you might come out of this with some satisfaction, it's his life/livelyhood you're potentially destroying.

Trust me on this, fantasize about it ... daydream if you will, but don't go through with it.Ã,  In the long run it's better for you both.

Walk away ...

I say go for it.

[FORUM RULES]

Please post thy screenshots inside the thread, as per the FORUM RULES, or the thread must be locked.

Edit - Let me know when you have your screenshots available to post in the thread!Ã,  Thanks.

[AGS Forums Search Page]

First place I'd look is the AGS Forums Search Page ...

I did, and I found these:
What's a good program to make MIDI music
What is the best music editor?

And there were many more.

And yes, why do you want it specifically for DOS?

[Imageshack]

This doesn't belong in the 'Completed Games' forum.

Also, did you search the forums first?

I went into search and typed 'free hosting' and found quite a few results.

- Imageshack
- Posting a huge game
- Free Website Providers
- Webhosting Services Search

And there were many more.  I didn't check them out, so some may not be what you're looking for.

[MR. DGMACPHEE!!!]

This contest has reached its end.

And the award goes to ...

** insert drumroll here **

MR. DGMACPHEE!!!

** crowd goes wild **

His entry took the most 'creative' approach to the subject of protests and that's what I was looking for!

Good stuff!

[offtopic]
Blackman,

I think what Farlander was trying to say was that there's really no point in posting a message that says, "Image Hosted by Tripod!", or "Big red Xs".

If you can't see the images, just wait awhile.Ã,  The author of the thread will (most likely) take steps to fix the problem.

Most times there are ways to view them anyway.Ã,  For instance, with Tripod, you can copy the image location into a new browser window to view them.Ã,  Or, if it's a big X you can view the image location and see if there are any obvious mistakes in the location, such as wwww.website.com/image.jpg (four w's) or changing .JPG to .jpg ... stuff like that.

[on topic]
Just try adding some colors to the GUIs.  Even if it's just from gray to blue or something.  The problem is that they don't appears to have had any time spent on them (well the slider one perhaps).

That actually does sound like fun ...

Last year, while still living in Michigan, when we had that huge blackout, the same kind of thing happened.  We went over to a friend's house and all the neighbors were all walking about talking to one another, having BBQs, etc.  (my closest neighbor to my house, was about 1/2 mile away).

It gave a bit of insight to the world before electricity ... no wonder it was a friendlier place back then!

Kids who commit crimes or commit suicide are not just a product of their parents upbringing of them. There are so many factors at work, that it is naive to assume that trying to deal with one factor (even assuming that any of the methods suggested for that would work) .

Read some books on child development, Darth, and you'll see hundreds of anecdotes of parents doing things that seem like loving behaviour actually encouraging bad behaviour in the kid. ITS NOT SO SIMPLE.

I wasn't trying to suggest, in ANY way, that the child committing mass murder at school was the parent's fault.Ã,  More just that the problem was the parent's didn't know that their child was capable of doing it.Ã,  For whatever reason the kid was corrupted into doing something like that, if the parents were good parents they would have noticed that something was wrong.Ã,  Ã, (again, in MOST cases, there's always exceptions.)

I'm going to back out of this discussion ... I can see that my radical views aren't well recieved by some and the last thing I want to do is offend people.Ã,  It's one of the reasons I've stayed out of topics like this in recent months!

If I've offended any of you let me be the first to apologize.

~ darth

I thought this was the land of oppurtunity?

Land of opportunity is great and democracy is great, but I really think that what America (can't speak for the rest of the world) is experiencing now is the dark-side of democracy.Ã,  People expect too much from their so-called 'freedom'.Ã,  They're unwilling to sacrifice ANYthing for the greater good.Ã,  People have become so spoiled by personal freedom that any sense of something bigger than their own well being is lost.Ã,  To me this is very sad.

You sound pretty conservative Darth, especially with that "prove who the father is" part. I don't think that should lose someone their child.

I don't really consider myself conservative (I don't really consider myself much of anything with a lable ... mostly 'cause I don't really think about it.)Ã,  I just tend to say/type what's on my mind at the time.

I wasn't saying that if she can't prove who the father is she should lose the child, she should lose the ability to have more children.Ã,  I do, however, think that if she's on any controlled substance (while pregnent) she should lose the kid.Ã,  Ã, If you can't have the willpower to stop yourself from doing something so obviously harmful to the kid just to satisfy your own needs, you aren't fit to take care of a baby.

But of course this idiot would have an excuse for taking drugs while pregnent.Ã,  That's another huge problem in the world.Ã,  Nobody takes responsibility for their own problems.Ã,  It's always somebody elses fault.

"I lost my job ... so I started doing drugs and spiralled into a world of chaos and crime.Ã,  It's my bosses fault for firing me!!"
- Take responsibility for yourself.Ã,  Stop being lazy.Ã,  Stop whining and make something for yourself.Ã,  Stop blaming others.

"It's the white man keeping me down!!"
- Bullshit.Ã,  Quit whining and get off your lazy fu--ing ass and actually work.

"I didn't know my kid was capable of committing mass murder at school!"
The very fact that you didn't know means you're a bad parent.Ã,  You would have known (in most cases) that something was wrong with your kid if you actually paid attention to him as parents should.

I guess I'm just trying to say that this topic, of bad parents not deserving kids, is just part of a much larger system of problems.Ã,  But I think it might be a major part of all these connected problems and might be the place to start.