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Are the AGS game file specifications public (I couldn't find them after a quick browse around the website)?

And when I say specs, I do mean the internal structure of the game file (what Roomedit opens).

[screams]

Show this to your courageous, chilvarous boyfriend  :

http://www.my-vasectomy.com/

(PS, as the site specifies, I hope you're not squeamish ... I wasn't able to go past the 8th page!!! *screams*)

I'm not complaining that it doesn't do enough. I'm complaining that it sucks up billions of pounds of taxpayer's money, and it all seems to disappear down a black hole. If it doesn't have the power to do anything, what is it managing to do with all the cash??

I honestly can't say I have an answer for you on that one.

But it makes me laugh to see that, although this could be a valid argument, none of the French used it (simply because they're used to paying a LOT of taxes!!). 

BTW, from my (limited) trips to the UK ... I found that life there seems a bit costly. Was that just an impression?

but I simply try to NOT post when I don't think it's worth it.

To be fair, was that always the case?

Rui, I read that thread you posted. I can't see why you would've continued posting in such a community. Call me stupid, but I felt like pointing a bazooka at a few of those posters (namely one omnipotent sovereign) even though I had nothing to do with it at all. Kudos for your patience.

... which is obviously why UK was not one of the founding countries. 


I actually love to tell the story of the beginnings of Europe. The first form of a European Union was the CECA, for “Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de l'Acier” (European Coal & Steel Community), project proposed to the French government by Robert Schuman.

The focus of this community, coal and steel, was not without meaning. Schuman was a clever man. A European community project would've never been accepted by the bulk of the French government, for mere diplomatic values. Schuman (and the others working on the project) thus presented it as a way to keep on tabs on Germany's weapon construction (coal and steel are the base materials for artillery).

When talking of European construction, this is very rarely reminded, and is how I illustrate the “only bring forth arguments serving your theory” advice.

Pumaman ... you overestimate the capacity of the people to understand anything. First of all, a referendum, is a yes/no question. If there's multiple choice answers, it's not a referendum. Again, perhaps Brits are cleverer (in your voting habits, I mean) ... but in France the referendum has long been a popularity vote (and I don't mean sarcastically--it's just that I've rarely, if ever seen a referendum that wasn't a popular vote).

That is one of the criticism done to De Gaulle--that he was the one to forge the popular the idea that, in referenda, you aren't being asked whether you agree to the question, but whether you agree with the person asking it. His spectacular resignation in 1969, following the rejection of one very unimportant referendum, gave the French bad habits.

Chirac, and it's obvious in the introductory pages of the constitution, made all the efforts in the world to dissociate himself from De Gaulle in that regard, and clearly explain that the French should express themselves on the Constitution rather than Chirac.

At the end of the day, most people, myself included, see the EU as sucking up taxpayer's money, and giving little or nothing in return

Well you're complaining that it doesn't do enough, but you're not willing to give it more power? I don't understand what you mean. Is it not illogical to say “I won't give power to the EU, because I doesn't have the power to do anything.”?

That doesn't have so much to do with Europe, as it has to do with Poland being a poor country (compared to Italy). BTW, with 100 â,¬ you can buy a very nice cellphone here (with a subscription), or a very good printer. You can even buy a DVD player, as said before, and nowadays, a 16x DVD burner (for PC).

Also, the price of anything at a gas station is internationally recognized as being a rip-off.

I can buy a decent baguette sandwidtch, and a tuna salad, and a can of Coke for 10 â,¬.

Oh well that's an educated vote.

I imagine most British toddlers don't know where Cambodia is on a world map. Should we teach them to dismiss it as a country alltogether? Or explain to them that the clothes manufactured there and imported here, don't really exist and that it's all an Emperor's Clothes act?

Why not read the constitutionâ€"or if not the constitution, an annotated, commented version of it? (For instance, reading pro-constitution books and anti-constitution books, and making an opinion of your own.)

And if you can't be arsed, then you're giving a prime argument to those who say democracy is flawed because people aren't apt to make state decisions.

But that's not a good answer! It's a reactionary answer, which is exactly what guided the choice of the French. Except that in their case, their bitter dislike of Chirac, or moreover the worse-and-worst choice of 2002 had them tilt the other way.

Hypothetically, I could say that I voted “non” to piss-off my pro-constitution father, and it would be received as a valid argument.

The euro did change prices, but by such a small margin that calling it "doubling" would be melodrama. Inflation factors in. World state factors in (now why is the gas for the car more expensive?). If you do get paid less, it has more to do with the fact that a lot of people are looking for jobs (therefore, you're expandable), than with the euro.

Prices might go up, but then curiously, the number of homes that have a mobile phones for every member, a computer with Internet, two cars, and two television is exponentially growing (not to mention, I can buy a --crappy-- livingroom DVD player for 99â,¬ or below).

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As the polls show in France, a majority of voters are the young French people ... those who didn't witness a world *without* Europe.


EDIT: I'm slightly annoyed to notice I keep doing the *emphasizing* thing ... it's more an obsessional compulsive IRC-derived habit, than an actual belief that it makes anything clearer.

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This board has a a total member count of 2644 at the time of posting. Would these members be more unique if they had joined, say, ten separate boards such that no board exceeds 265 members?

The Constitution is far from creating USE, and *FAR* from erasing unicity of characters of the different nations. I think the Brits will always have to do EVERYTHING differently, the French will always mauger and mope and rebel against everything, the Dutch will always want to have less and less to do with outsiders, Italy will always be catholic, etc., etc.

Europe is set in its ways. Thinking a Constitution will upheave milleniums of inertia is wishful thinking. (This whole ordeal makes me fondly think of the old hippy couple who just *doesn't* want to officially wed, even though they've been together since the 60's.)

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The polls show that why the French did fear the Constitution might have had bad effects on France ... the main reason, the *real* reason is that they feel cheated by the government in place, and the extremists parties have helped them feel even more cheated.

In April 2002, Chirac was mistakenly elected. Everybody thought the socialist Jospin would make it to the second round ... and thus voted for anybody BUT Jospin. As an end result, the right-wing extremist Le Pen (who's been fucking around this time too) was in the second round with Chirac, and nobody wanted to have a right wing extremist as a president.

76% of the French were going to say “yes” a couple months ago, but actions taken by the government--such as making a national holiday, Pentecost, a work day; or problems with the National Education Ministry--are what annoyed the people. The Prime Minister's popularity vote is 26% ... and he was just kicked out.

So there. The Constitution really was at the wrong place, and at the wrong time (. They feel like today isn't as important an issue than the presidency ... and thus feel  like there's waggle room to say “Fuck off.”

Most French's reason to vote no was something close to “Because Chirac wants us to say yes.”

The reactionary “We'll do this because so and so did that,” I find so stupid. *sigh* And I find it here too?

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I was not siding with Flukeblake ... just I think it's a bit harsh that everybody has something to say to him (when most were in his position at some point).

Flukeblake finds the whole situation unfair because he finds it hard to understand what he is doing wrong. He is not at an age yet where he can understand others and treat them with respect.

I think we should stop humouring him and leave the situation to the moderators.

But I think Chicky's post said things much better than I--and I agree entirely.


DGMacphee,  can *I* call you Sir Spank-A-Lot? 

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someone who hasn't got a proper grasp of the English language

I remember a time where most Elite members weren't so particuliar about the English language either. That's not a very good reason.

I have no standing to say this at all, but despite Flukeblake's blatant immaturity, I'm a bit appalled everybody decided to take a moral high ground over him. Can't anybody say "been there, done that"? And though you all mean well by defending this forum and community's honor, why throw oil on the fire?

No, not only that, actually.
But " i spoke out about the fact that moderators treat anyone under 16 like garbage" is enough reason.

I mean stuff like this, which somewhat implies that it what *this* particular post that got him in trouble ... *sigh*

(Seems like Ishmael's post is one of the only ones that doesn't try to give a lesson.)

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Gorgeous. Really ... Beside the comic, which I agree is wonderful ... I'm particularly charmed by the website itself, which is wonderfully put together (I actually feel like I opened a comic album, rather than am reading them on Firefox).

Bookmarking this too.

A delegate is just a function pointer, BTW. Event structures allows you to have an event pointing to several delegates.

I once installed Turtoise something for SVN ... those were the dark ages, and I felt like I was invaded by this prog, that installed itself all over my Explorer ...

Can I edit the source?

That's either not what I was saying, or I (really) don't understand what *you* are saying ... I could show you what I mean ... but alright, let's leave it at that.

I mean, it looks like C written in C# : scotch (or CJâ€"I didn't quite understand *who* wrote that bot) doesn't take advantage of any of the “features” of C# sturdy syntax and OO model. Where are the Events? the Delegates, the Properties (with Getter and Setter) ? where's the hierarchy (I mean, OK, the sink thing ... but it could've done so much better with delegates) ?

I wonder what AGS would be in C# ... probably much easier to maintain (for instance, the text script could be ipso facto implemented, thanks to the internal compiler classes).